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It's the interconnected system of weights and measures that most of the world uses: that meter - liter - kilogram thing. So far, Americans seem to be sticking with their old-fashioned pounds and bushels and pints and miles and acres. In SI, all the units are related in some way to each other (for example, a hectare, a measure of land area, is the same as 100 meters squared) and units are related to each other by factors of ten. In contrast, American units use different factors within a reckoning and different kinds of measurement are often awkwardly related. Example: 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 5.5 yards to a rod, 4 rods to a chain, 10 chains to a furlong, 8 furlongs to a mile, whereas 1 kilometer equals 1,000 meters, 100 dekameters, 10 hectometers, 10,000 decimeters, 100,000 centimeters and a million millimeters. One cubic decimeter of water is exactly 1 kilogram (or close enough for anything but high science) while there are only more or less 8 pounds to the gallon.

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