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The metric system of measurement was invented by French scientists in the early 1790s and imposed on the populace by the leaders of the French Revolution. For about a year, the revolutionaries even ...

From currency and commerce, food labels to laboratories, the metric system is the foundation of many science and math fields. And while the United States hasn't fully adopted the metric system, the ...

The humorist Dave Barry has more than once suggested "millipedes" as an imaginary unit of measurement (for example, 120 miles = 2,342,424,323.3432 millipedes), poking fun at the inscrutability of the ...