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There following are the main reasons.

  1. To get internationally agreed standards: unlike a gallon which was one measure in the US and a different measure elsewhere.
  2. To base the measurement units on sensible rather than arbitrary measures. Originally, a yard was the length of a man's girdle (or belt). Then in the 12th Century, Henry I of England declared it as the distance from his nose to the thumb of his out-stretched arm.
  3. Create close relationships between units for different measures: for example, the unit for acceleration was one unit of distance divided by the square of the unit of time; the unit for force was a unit of mass times a unit of acceleration; pressure was unit of force divided by unit of area.
  4. Define larger and smaller units by using factors and multiples of 10 (or 1000), and use prefices to move up or down the scale. By contrast the old system had :
  • 2 pints in a quart
  • 3 feet in a yard
  • 4 quarts in a gallon
  • 6 feet in a fathom
  • 8 furlongs in a mile
  • 9 square feet in a square yard
  • 12 inches in a foot
  • 14 pounds in a stone
  • 16 ounces in a pound
  • and so on.
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