An Enquiry Into and an Explanation of Decimal Coinage and the Metric System of Weights and Measures (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Enquiry Into and an Explanation of Decimal Coinage and the Metric System of Weights and MeasuresBy nature fond of mathematics, and having, when a young man, lived for a considerable period in Paris and later in life for several years in the United States, I have long been familiar with the actual working of decimal coinage and the metric system. My knowledge, however, was superficial, because I had paid little heed to the only part of the subject that really requires much attention - the best way of meeting the difficulty, confusion and expense [of introducing those systems into this country with its vast array of weights - and-measures tables, its money reckoning in pounds, shillings, pence and farthings and the intricate ratios of our units to the metric ones.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.