In general, the purpose of metrication is to convert measurements from a customary system of measurements to the international system of measurements (known as SI and specified by BIPM http://www.bipm.org/en/si/).
Wider purposes include:
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String was meant to be string. No others purpose.
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the purpose of rounding numbers is that you can get closer to the actual answer