Committee Serial No. 90-54. Considers S. 441 and similar S. 2356, to authorize Commerce Dept to conduct study regarding methods and cost of U.S. conversion to metric system.

A basic introduction to the metric system.

Through a friendly chat, this educational story tells a bit of history and using approximations, instead of conversions between the inch-pound and metric systems, explores the basics of the metric system used in everyday life.