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What is the metric unit?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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Burma, Liberia, and the United States are the only ones who are using the imperial system, the imperial system is some weird 600 year old stuff where measurements were made by measuring a kings: foot (foot), inch (thumb width) and so on, this is pretey worthless because sizes of thumbs or feet differ.

The metric system made things way easier, people did not have measurements of bodyparts of their kings but changed every measurable thing in a system of 10ths, so its basically if you reach a ten or a hundred, or a thousand you have your next measuring unit.

10mm=1 cm, 100cm = 1m, 1000m = 1km

12 inches = 1 foot, 1 mile 5280 feet ...

Adding a zero is way easier then remembering some weird numbers, also its way easier to calculate with squares, its not only about measuring lenght by the way, its the same with liquids or weights

1kg = 1000g

1l = 1000 ml

1l water = 1 kg

Just try to convert every formula :)

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The metric unit of what . -There is an entire metric system of all kinds of units .

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  1. liter
  2. gram
  3. meter
  4. centimeter
  5. milliliter
  6. kilogram
  7. millimeter
  8. decigram
  9. kilometer
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Mass . . . kilogram

Length . . . meter

Time . . . second

Charge . . . Coulomb

All the other units are multiples or combinations of these.

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What metric unit would you use to measure a computer keyboard

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