Did you know?
• The Metric System is official known as Le Système International d'Unités, or the International System of Units, it's more simply known the world over by its abbreviated name, the SI.
• In the 1790s and during the Revolution in France that the French devised the primitive basis for the modern metric base-10 system.
• The meter was originally 1/10,000,000 the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, through Paris Francel.
• a gram is the weight of one cubic centimeter of water, which makes 1 liter of water weighs 1 kilogram
• metric units are all all multiples of ten
• More than one type of ton? Yes!
A short ton is equal to 2,000 pounds or about 907 kilograms.
A long ton is equal to 2,240 pounds, or about 1,016 kilograms.
A metric ton, which is assigned the official symbol "t" in the International System of Units, is equal to 1,000 kilograms, or about 2,204 pounds which is also 1 megagram -- denoted by the symbol Mg.
The Metric System is Case Sensitive: What?
mm = milimeter
Mm= megameter
The basic metric units are:
meters (for length)
grams (for mass or weight)
liters (for volume)
The different units convert into one another:
one milliliter = one cubic centimeter
one gram = the weight of one cc of water.
