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		<title>Fire hydrant signs &#8211; a successful metric conversion</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/05/fire-hydrant-signs-a-successful-metric-conversion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 17:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Metric Views looks at a successful but unsung project that took place during the early years of the UK’s metric transition. We speculate what might have occurred had this job been the responsibility, not of local government, but of the &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/05/fire-hydrant-signs-a-successful-metric-conversion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>US customary measures: friend or foe of British traditionalists?</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/04/us-customary-measures-%e2%80%93friend-or-foe-of-traditionalists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early years of the twentieth century, both US customary (USC) and metric measures were seen by some in Britain as threats to the survival of the Imperial system. The end of Empire saw metric supplant Imperial, while USC &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/04/us-customary-measures-%e2%80%93friend-or-foe-of-traditionalists/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Just how much does not being fully metric cost the UK economy?</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/03/just-how-much-does-not-being-fully-metric-cost-the-uk-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/03/just-how-much-does-not-being-fully-metric-cost-the-uk-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our regular readers, John Frewen-Lord, has compiled a quiz, or rather two quizzes, to illustrate the waste resulting from the UK’s measurement muddle. The editors of Metric Views are unsure why a penalty of £1 per second has &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/03/just-how-much-does-not-being-fully-metric-cost-the-uk-economy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mesures usuelles. An anniversary remembered</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/02/mesures-usuelles-an-anniversary-remembered/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/02/mesures-usuelles-an-anniversary-remembered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The comment by Han Maenen on the previous article reminds us that this is the 200th anniversary of a decree which ended temporarily the use of the metric system for everyday purposes in France and elsewhere. Wikipedia provides an account &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/02/mesures-usuelles-an-anniversary-remembered/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The generation gap</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/02/the-generation-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his recent article “Why I …”,  Ronnie Cohen looked at the present to explain why he believes the UK should complete the transition to metric units. However, some of those who commented on his article also looked back. In &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/02/the-generation-gap/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why I became involved with measurement matters</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/01/why-i-became-involved-with-measurement-matters/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/01/why-i-became-involved-with-measurement-matters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ronniec</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://metricviews.org.uk/?p=2592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of our readers has written to explain why he became interested in the campaign to complete Britain&#8217;s prolonged metric changeover. Ronnie Cohen wrote recently to Metric Views: &#8220;Out of all the bread-and-butter issues that top the political agenda, you &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2012/01/why-i-became-involved-with-measurement-matters/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pound-inch units finally give way to metric in space</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/09/metric-to-finally-supplant-pound-inch-units-in-space/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/09/metric-to-finally-supplant-pound-inch-units-in-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks as if astronauts, cosmonauts, or yuhangyuan as we will soon learn to call them, will before long have to cope with only one measurement system in space as the US winds down its programme and China takes its &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/09/metric-to-finally-supplant-pound-inch-units-in-space/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Eurocodes for structural design, and that decimal marker</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/07/eurocodes-for-structural-design-and-that-decimal-marker/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/07/eurocodes-for-structural-design-and-that-decimal-marker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain is currently adopting European codes for structural design and allowing British Standard codes to lapse. This raises the issue of the preferred decimal marker – should imperial or continental practice be followed? Mike Bather, who is a lecturer at &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/07/eurocodes-for-structural-design-and-that-decimal-marker/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An ‘el’ of a standard</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/01/an-%e2%80%98el%e2%80%99-of-a-standard/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/01/an-%e2%80%98el%e2%80%99-of-a-standard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erithacus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The powers that be of the metric system are wrestling with the problem of defining the kilogram independently of an actual physical object (i.e. the very slowly degrading cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy kept at Sèvres, near Paris, known as &#8220;the &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2011/01/an-%e2%80%98el%e2%80%99-of-a-standard/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Snow calculations made simple, or not</title>
		<link>http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/12/snow-calculations-made-simple-or-not/</link>
		<comments>http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/12/snow-calculations-made-simple-or-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of our readers, John Frewen-Lord, has been housebound for four days by the recent heavy snow falls &#8211; about 60 cm deep in his area. This has prompted him to provide an illustration of the comparative simplicity of calculating &#8230; <a href="http://metricviews.org.uk/2010/12/snow-calculations-made-simple-or-not/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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