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INSTANT METRIC
eBook
PAGE 2
TABLE of CONTENTS
PAGE 3
Evolution of
Archaic Measurement
PAGE 4 - Inch-Pound
PAGE 6 - "SI" Relates
PAGE 8
The Metric System
PAGE 10 - Prefixes
PAGE 11 - Symbols
PAGE 12
Everyday Base Units
PAGE 13 - meter
PAGE 15 - centimeter
PAGE 17 - millimeter 
PAGE 19 - kilometer
PAGE 21 - liter
PAGE 22 - milliliter
PAGE 24 - kilogram
PAGE 26 - gram
PAGE 28 - milligram
PAGE 29 - tonne
PAGE 31 
Temperature 
PAGE 32
7 Base Units
PAGE 34
HOW THE METRIC SYSTEM WORKS
PAGE 35 - Summary
OTHER USEFUL LINKS
FREE METRIC POSTERS
METRIC EXAMS!
INSTANT METRIC CONVERSION TABLES
United Metric States
 
 

Page 4

INCH-POUND
Non- System

PLEASE NOTE:
NONE OF THIS EXAMPLE BELOW IS POSSIBLE...
WE JUST IMAGINE  IT TO ILLUSTRATE
HOW NOTHING WITH INCH-POUND MEASUREMENT
IS RELATED TO ANYTHING.

Let's IMAGINE a person from another archaic country
or planet that wanted to know how you could possibly make the old "inch-pound non-system"
easy to understand by demonstrating how
Length, Liquid and
Weight
MIGHT somehow relate to each other
with inch-pound measurement.

IMAGINE...
IF you could take the length of a yard and divide it by exactly ten equal parts... so we can make a cube container with those same equal sides to hold water...

...then by some strange course of events IMAGINE again IF we could fill that cube container with water
AND that cube contained the liquid of exactly 1 quart which, when placed on a scale weighed
exactly 1 pound.

"You'd likely say,
that's easy!

   Let's go party!"

...inch-pound system CONTINUED PAGE 5

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