Parker, yours is an excellent suggestion! However, the name would
still understate the importance of the technology -- a system of
"weights and measures." For many people, that means the number that
pops up on the bathroom scale in the morning and the distance to
work. How about:
Decimal System of Physical Measurements (DS)
That would better encompass the myriad measurements that can be
expressed in SI - now DS.
John Dunlop
At 14:15 2018-04-06, Parker Willey Jr. wrote:
Hi:
I was thinking the other day that some people think the word
"metric" is foreign. That could be one of the monkey wrenches that
keeps our country mostly using legacy measures.
So, since we use a decimal system of coinage, I propose that we call
the metric system of weights and measures simpl;y the "Decimal"
system of weights and measures. That is what it is!
In the United States, We can retain all the labels like liter,
kilometer, meter, millimeter, hectare. etc.
Now, think: The "Decimal" system of weights and measures.
Does that sound OK?
...Parker Willey Jr.
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