Terry Simpson asked in USMA 22902:
Can I use 'metric', 'metric-system' and 'SI' as synonyms?
And if something is 'non-SI' is it also 'non-metric'?
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Terry Simpson
SI is the modern sub-set of the metric system. SI was finally
adopted by the Conf�rence G�n�rale des Poids et Mesures in 1960, It
had been proposed by the Interntional Union of Physics some time
before 1948. Many metric units are non-SI and are considered to be
obsolete.
Joseph B. Reid
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