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.

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 ...

In order to find a suitable unit of measure for something, it is important to consider and estimate its size first. This helps in deciding what an appropriate unit might be, given the size of the ...

This is too funny. This means when you use this term as a slang phrase to say “a large amount,” emphasizing the number of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...