document.write( "Question 1135317: What are the benefits of the use of non-standard units of measurement? Give three valid points. \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "    What is interesting, as a rule, for the opponent it is not the goal to get a truth.\r\n" );
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document.write( "    He is mostly interested to demonstrate himself and to dominate . . . \r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Simply, at each measurement scale, its own standard and natural measurement unit should be: meter, kilometer, millimeter and so on . . . \r
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document.write( "In more serious terms, using non-standard units contradicts to the idea and the goal of measurements itself.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The idea and the goal of measurements is to compare different objects, items and so on.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Making it in standard units is good idea and is an action \"along the purposes\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "Making it in non-standard units is an action \"across the purposes\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "Otherwise, a society needs to have a \"Department of Units exchange\" and/or special technologies for it.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Shortly and clearly.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Recall that the first \"universal\" system of weights and lengths was established in France at the time of dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Surely, prominent scientists were behind this decision, but it only was possible to implement it under the dictatorship regime.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then during the epoch of Napoleon's wars in Europe the system was expanded to many other European counties.\r\n" );
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document.write( "In Russia, this system was established for the first time in 1917-18 years after Bolshevik's revolution, i.e. also\r\n" );
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document.write( "For England, it took many centuries to pass from their archaic measurement system to the modern International System of units.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It became possible only under the outer pressure due to entering to the European Union . . . \r\n" );
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document.write( "In the United States, with their semi-isolationist position, nobody knows when they finish to use their pounds, feet, gallons, ounces etc. . . .\r\n" );
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