IF it were possible to make a clean sweep of British units of measurement and substitute for them the metric system, probably no one would benefit more than the surveyor and map maker. No one who has ...

WE have received a copy of the memorandum submitted by the Council of the Decimal Association to the Departmental Committee on the Ordnance Survey, appointed by the Minister of Agriculture and ...

Here’s a good trivia question: What are the only 3 countries in the world that do not use the metric system? Everybody knows the good ol’ hard headed USA is in there, but the other two? How about ...