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Do scientific journals say "we expect you to use metric" or do they say "we expect you to use metric measurements written in notation as codified by SI" or do they say "we expect you to conform to the national standard, which is presently Metric/SI"? Why does that make me think of GNU/Linux? — [[user:MaxEnt|MaxEnt]] 03:03, 1 August 2014 (UTC) |
Do scientific journals say "we expect you to use metric" or do they say "we expect you to use metric measurements written in notation as codified by SI" or do they say "we expect you to conform to the national standard, which is presently Metric/SI"? Why does that make me think of GNU/Linux? — [[user:MaxEnt|MaxEnt]] 03:03, 1 August 2014 (UTC) |
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== The USA adopted the metric system in 1866 == |
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> The metric system has been officially sanctioned for use in the United States |
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> since 1866, but it remains the only industrialised country that has not |
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> adopted the metric system as its official system of measurement. |
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This is false. The USA adopted the metric system in 1866 and it has the same official legal status as the US Customary system (in fact, the customary system is defined in terms of SI). What you really mean to say is that the USA has not banned the US Customary system. |
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Article needs formal statement of purview
It would hugely benefit this article to have a formal statement of purview in the lead or shortly thereafter.
There's not a single thing in this article about conventions of metric notation in formal writing. It's seems to me reading this that the purview of metric is to provide a comprehensive set of ranged units for physical measurement and a standardized notation for expressing these ranged units, but it doesn't seem to have much to say about whether one correctly writes "2L jug" or "2 L jug" or "2-L jug" or "2 litre jug" or "2-litre jug".
Is this formally outside the bailiwick of the metric system? There is a section covering this in the SI article. Is it SI itself that extends the metric system with these niceties?
Surely someone eminent must have once sat down and said "this is our scope". What was stipulated?
Do countries legally adopt metric or do they legally adopt SI, or do they implicitly adopt metric via SI, or do they formally adopt both as separate entities? How does that work?
Do scientific journals say "we expect you to use metric" or do they say "we expect you to use metric measurements written in notation as codified by SI" or do they say "we expect you to conform to the national standard, which is presently Metric/SI"? Why does that make me think of GNU/Linux? — MaxEnt 03:03, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
The USA adopted the metric system in 1866
> The metric system has been officially sanctioned for use in the United States > since 1866, but it remains the only industrialised country that has not > adopted the metric system as its official system of measurement.
This is false. The USA adopted the metric system in 1866 and it has the same official legal status as the US Customary system (in fact, the customary system is defined in terms of SI). What you really mean to say is that the USA has not banned the US Customary system.