In today’s story, one person tells another person to measure something using “any” unit of measure. Big mistake! Let’s see what happened. This one actually got done to me yesterday.

Speed is a measure of how fast something is travelling. The speed of an object is how far the object travels in one unit of time. The formula for speed is: \(\text{speed} = \frac{\text{distance}}{\ ...

The sunflower is 214 cm tall. Calculate the height of the sunflower in metres and millimetres. There are 100 centimetres in a metre. Metres are larger than centimetres so the number of centimetres ...

And he serves on the General Conference on Weights and Measures, the supreme authority that names the units of measure and defines the prefixes that tell you how big they are. His opinion ...

An angstrom (Å) is a unit of length equal to 10-10 meters or 0.1 nanometers. It is named after the Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström, who first used it to measure the wavelengths of light. The ...

Barky realizes that the measurement can be made by counting how many 1-centimeter items are needed, and the customer's foot is measured successfully.