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Metric units are units based on the metre, gram or second and decimal (power of ten) multiples or sub-multiples of these. According to Schadow and McDonald, [1] metric units, in general, are those units "defined 'in the spirit' of the metric system, that emerged in late 18th century France and was rapidly adopted by scientists and engineers.
[20] [21] [22] The decimal prefix for ten thousand, myria-(sometimes spelt myrio-), and the early binary prefixes double-(2×) and demi-( 1 / 2 ×) were parts of the original metric system adopted by France in 1795, [23] [d] but were not retained when the SI prefixes were internationally adopted by the 11th CGPM conference in 1960.
The General Conference on Weights and Measures (French: Conférence générale des poids et mesures – CGPM), which was established by the Metre Convention of 1875, brought together many international organisations to establish the definitions and standards of a new system and to standardise the rules for writing and presenting measurements.
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