Madan wrote in USMA 19130:

>The metric world pushed liter as the cubic unit and it
>became popular and also made SI popular.
>
>On the other hand, the metric world did not stress
>'are' (100 sq. meters) as the square unit and that is
>why the acre and square feet still rules even in
>metric countries.


That applies to Canada's incomplete conversion to the metric system.  It
certainly does not apply to most of the world.

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