 The decimal numbers, applied to the French weights and measures, form one of its highest theoretic excellences. It has, however, been proved by the most decisive experience in France, that they are not adequate to the wants of man in society : and, for...  The Metric Fallacy - Page 21by Frederick Arthur Halsey - 1904 - 231 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Department of State, John Quincy Adams - Weights and measures - 1821 - 276 pages
...exclusive application in the latter of the decimal arithmetic to all its multiples and subdivisions. The decimal numbers, applied to the French weights and measures, form one of its highest theoretic excellencies. It has, however, been proved by the most decisive experience in France, that they are... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1822 - 488 pages
...exclusive application in the latter of the decimal arithmetic to all its multiples and subdivisions. The decimal numbers, applied to the French weights and measures, form one of its highest theoretic excellencies. It has, however, been proved by the most decisive experience in France, that they are... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1871 - 386 pages
...exclusive application in the latter of the decimal arithmetic to all its multiples and subdivisions. The decimal numbers, applied to the French weights...they are not adequate to the wants of man in society : and, for all the purposes of retail trade, they have been formally abandoned. The convenience of... | |
 | Criticism - 1879 - 876 pages
...this feature and urges many strong objections to it which are as forcible now as in 1819. He says : " The decimal numbers applied to the French weights and measures form one of its higher theoretic excellences. It has, however, been proved by the most decisive experience in France,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on coinage, weights & measures - 1926 - 394 pages
...which has been immeasurably increased by the growth of the English-speaking world since that time. The decimal numbers applied to the French weights...they are not adequate to the wants of man in society, and for all the purposes of retail trade they have been formally abandoned. The convenience of decimal... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1822 - 502 pages
...exclusive application in the latter of the decimal arithmetic to all its multiples and subdivisions. The decimal numbers, applied to the French weights and measures, form one of its highest theoretic excellencies. It has, however, been proved by the most decisive experience in France, that they are... | |
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