we talk of globalisation and generalisation in everything we also talk about engineering starndards used all around the world that is why they come to say metric,iso etc also standard systems like mks ,fps ,cgs,s.i. emerged. but even now in countries like u.s people use lbs (pounds) etc to measure and calculate and uk,india etc use s.i. why is this difference occuring?also even i heard that there are two metre scales called british and american in which american is 3cm smaller than the former? why is these all being followed ?why is there no globalisation in this?
2006-07-18
04:17:28
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