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Metric recipe conversion-butter

Posted on 2008-12-11 by Jim

We have a few recipes from friends in France and Sweden that use metric measurements. Some of the volume-volume (e.g. 1 teaspoon=5 mL) or weight-weight (e.g. 500 g=1.1 pounds) conversions are pretty trivial. Other conversions are more difficult, and I … Continue reading →

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Whither the metric system?

Posted on 2005-07-06 by Jim

The US was the first country to adopt a decimal monetary system, so why are we the very last industrialized country on the planet still using a pre-18th century system of weights and measures?

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kilo: 1000 vs 1024

Posted on 2005-07-05 by Jim

Is a “kilobyte” 1024 bytes, or 1000? The traditional answer is 1024. [Just an aside: "tradition" for a field that has only been around for a few decades. Chuckle.] The metric system, which defined the “kilo-” prefix to mean 1000, … Continue reading →

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