09-14-2010, 09:47 AM
(09-14-2010, 08:32 AM)Zenda Wrote: Let me remind you that by signing the Metric Convention in 1875 the US declared it's intention to participate in a uniform system of measurements using international prototypes of the meter and of the kilogram.
So? The system the US would have committed itself to using in 1875 has long since been supplanted by SI. It would also have used the centimeter and the gram as base units, not the meter and kilogram.
-Jester