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It s been 230 years since pirates stopped metric in the US theregister.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theregister.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A unified measuring system allows people from different nations to trade with one another without doubting what they are getting. But there are holdouts.
Did you know that the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 named the metric system as “the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce"?