Right. Again, the question is who, not why. Can it be attributed to any
one person?
Jim
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> The term "metric" is old (I do not know how old) from Greek. It means
> measure.
> France had many systems of measure, that is, metric systems. Each local
> government had its own metric system. The national government of France made
> up
> one system of measures, specified to be decimal. So we have in French
> history the
> creation of not just a metric system but a decimal metric system. We, being
> sloppy, have dropped the "decimal". We need to say "decimal" more often.
> In SI 10 page 60, about the history of SI the second word is "decimal".
> Robert H Bushnell 00-12-20
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