His first book, " About the Size of It " ( Pan Macmillan, 2007 ) championed the cause of traditional systems of measurement.
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Simon Stevin had published his ideas for a decimal notation and John Wilkins had published a proposal for a decimal system of measurement based on natural units.
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When you have a sport not determined by a system of measurement, time and length and so on, you have to stay with the subjective judgment,
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Except for in cases of import items, all recipes and packaging include both Celsius and Fahrenheit, so Canadians are typically comfortable with both systems of measurement.
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The legislation states that the federal government has a responsibility to assist industry, especially small business, as it voluntarily converts to the metric system of measurement.
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Mesures usuelles ( French for " customary measurements " ) were a system of measurement introduced as a compromise between the metric system and traditional measurements.
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Until recently, much the same was true of the systems of measurement in use in Europe, though the metric system is now in the ascendant everywhere.
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The final report of the study concluded that the U . S . would eventually join the rest of the world in the use of the metric system of measurement.
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However, "'the situational theory of publics "'contains more variables and has a more developed system of measurement and analysis than these other theories.
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The United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada have some active opposition to metrication, particularly where updated weights and measures laws would make obsolete historic systems of measurement.
