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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 ...
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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]
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.
Games Gold Silver Bronze 1958 Tokyo Fujie Eguchi and Kazuko Yamaizumi Baguio Wong and Ng Yuk Chun Wie Sang-sook and Choi Kyung-ja Chen Pao-pei and Chiang Tsai-yun 1962 Jakarta Masako Seki and Noriko Yamanaka Hwang Yool-ja and Lee Yung-mi Kimiyo Matsuzaki and Kazuko Ito 1966 Bangkok Noriko Yamanaka
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.
Table tennis at the 1995 SEA Games Venue Gymnasium 2, Chiang Mai University Location Chiang Mai, Thailand Dates 10–15 December 1995 Competitors 69 from 8 nations ← 1993 1997 → Table tennis at the 1995 SEA Games is being held in the Gymnasium 2, Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai, Thailand from 10 to 15 December 1995. Medalists Event Gold Silver Bronze Men's singles Vietnam Indonesia ...