THIS diagram of the metric units of length, area and volume is printed on a sheet of paper about 3 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 6 inches. The various measures are shown full size. To be of the greatest use ...

The metric dimension is a key invariant in graph theory that encapsulates the minimal number of reference points, or “resolving sets”, required to uniquely determine the position of each vertex within ...

Carpathian Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2014), pp. 129-137 (9 pages) Hassen, Abbas and Vetro [H. Aydi, M. Abbas and Vetro, Partial Hausdorff metric and Nailer's fixed point theorem on ...

When Sally Mitchell, a science teacher at East Syracuse Minoa Central High in Syracuse, New York, spoke to a group of students at the recent U.S. Department of Energy National Science Bowl, she ...

The United States's version of the Imperial system is based on an older British version. MaxPixel At press time, only three of the world's countries don't use the metric system: the United States, ...

A metric prefix is a numerical multiplier that is placed before a basic unit of measure to indicate a specified multiple or fraction of that unit. The 20 recognized metric prefixes have been specified ...

Have you ever noticed that systems of measurement tends to change when you leave the United States? Weight is typically measured in kilograms instead of pounds, distance is measured in kilometers over ...

I was at the supermarket recently when I took note of something my eyes had passed thousands of times before. The cans of my favorite sodas were 12 ounces, while the bottles were 2 liters. It caught ...