Most Americans believe the country rejected the metric system decades ago. In reality, US measurements like feet, pounds, and gallons are officially defined using metric units behind the scenes. The ...

December 23, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the Metric Conversion Act, designed to bring US weights and measures in line with the rest of the world. The United States is one of the last holdouts ...

This text presents a layered and often chaotic stream of thoughts that exposes the cultural and psychological forces working against widespread metric system adoption. References to technology, ...

SINCE the publication of the article on the Metric System, in NATURE, vol. viii. p. 386, my attention has been drawn to some recent information showing the important part taken by the celebrated ...

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An obsession with the numbers can sink your strategy. by Michael Harris and Bill Tayler Tying performance metrics to strategy has become an accepted best practice over the past few decades. Strategy ...

Abstract: This paper presents MetricGrids, a novel grid-based neural representation that combines elementary metric grids in various metric spaces to approximate complex nonlinear signals. While ...

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