The Metric System at a Glance - Centennial School District

The original "metric system" was developed in France in the 1790's and was refined into the "International System" (Le . S. ystème . I. nternational d'Unités) in 1960. The metric system consists of one base unit for every measurable quantity and uses a set of prefixes based on decimals of 10 to derive larger and smaller units from the base. ................
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