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In real life, the metric system is used universally in scientific work all over the world.
It is also used to talk about length, width, height, area, volume, mass, weight, distance,
temperature, and speed, by common ordinary people in their everyday real life and work
all over the world, except in Liberia, Burma, and the USA.

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