Expats and tourists from the United States come to Costa Rica with a handicap. While most of the rest of the world, including Costa Rica, is using the metric system, the U.S., despite several efforts ...

Metric units are universally followed in most countries. The metric system was first introduced in France in 1799 and since then has been further refined and has become an international decimalised ...

In the supermarket, on the street and in bars, Europeans have long thought in units of 10 — fruit is weighed by the kilo, beverages dispensed by fractions of a liter and distances marked off in meters ...

The ongoing use of the imperial system in the United States, despite the global adoption of the metric system, raises intriguing questions about tradition, practicality, and cultural identity. This ...