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As of 2006, Myanmar government web pages in English used imperial and metric units inconsistently. For instance, the Ministry of Construction used miles to describe the length of roads [4] and square feet for the size of houses, [5] but square kilometres for the total land area of new town developments in Yangon City. [5]
Full metrication with the passage of the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1956, [5] now replaced by the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976: [6] these Acts quote the legal conversion factors for imperial units to SI units. Exact conversions can be made for customary units if they had previously been defined in terms of imperial ...
The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London (590 Seven Sisters Road). The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial [1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments.
Imperial and US customary measurement systems; Indonesian units of measurement; ... Moroccan units of measurement; Myanmar units of measurement; N.
The 10th CGPM in 1954 resolved to create an international system of units [31]: 41 and in 1960, the 11th CGPM adopted the International System of Units, abbreviated SI from the French name Le Système international d'unités, which included a specification for units of measurement. [5]: 110
A Dictionary of Units of Measurement; Old units of measure; Measures from Antiquity and the Bible Antiquity and the Bible at the Wayback Machine (archived May 10, 2008) Reasonover's Land Measures A Reference to Spanish and French land measures (and their English equivalents with conversion tables) used in North America; The Unified Code for ...
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The metric units of measurement on Canadian canned food labels are merely the equivalent of the still widely used imperial units such as the ounce. Metrication in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa was essentially complete within a decade, while in Canada metrication has been halted since the 1970s.