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In the US, Fannie Farmer introduced the more exact specification of quantities by volume in her 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. [2] Today, most of the world prefers metric measurement by weight, [3] though the preference for volume measurements continues among home cooks in the United States [4] [5] and the rest of North America ...
Table tennis has been an Olympic sport since 1988, [3] with event categories in both men's and women's singles, and men's and women's teams since replacing doubles in 2008. Table tennis is governed by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), founded in 1926, and specifies the official rules in the ITTF handbook. [4]
Metric value Imperial value U.S. customary; chast' часть: part 1 ⁄ 30: 6 + 2 ⁄ 3: 109.33 ml 4.380 fl oz 4.208 fl oz kruzhka кру́жка: mug: 2 ⁄ 5: 80 1.312 L 2.309 pints 2.773 pints garnyec [2] га́рнец: pot 1 200 3.279842 L 5.772 pints 3.466 quarts vyedro ведро́: bucket 4 800 13.12 L 2.886 gal 3.466 gal chyetvyerik ...
The first group of metric units are those that are at present defined as units within the International System of Units (SI). In its most restrictive interpretation, this is what may be meant when the term metric unit is used. The unit one (1) is the unit of a quantity of dimension one. It is the neutral element of any system of units. [2]
The avoirdupois system served as the general system of mass and weight. In addition to this, there are the troy and the apothecaries' systems. Troy weight was customarily used for precious metals, black powder, and gemstones. The troy ounce is the only unit of the system in current use; it is used for precious metals.
2) British: A unit of weight equal to a hundredweight (112 lb). 3) A metric unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms. 3) A metric unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms. Tonneau : [ French > "barrel"] A weight equal to 1 million grams (or 1 millier), 10 quintals, 100 Myriagrams, or 1,000 Kilograms.
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User MJBurrage made changes to the table in the section Metric Measures: old table vs after edits. Some of the decimals were removed, changing 100ths to 10ths, whereas in at least one case, a decimal to a 10th was added. The FDA column more closely follows the cite. I do not understand the desire to eliminate decimal accuracy.