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Show Time Saved by System. In a report made to the house of representatives rep-resentatives by the committee on coinage, coin-age, weights and measures, which favored fa-vored the adoption of the metric system sys-tem by the government of the United Stntes, It wus pointed out that, according accord-ing to estimates niude by the bureau of education and others, two-thirds of n your would besaved by the adoption of the metric arithmetic. It is also averred, as a matter of evidence, that the metric system and its application to the solution of problems may be learned In one-tenth of the time required re-quired for gaining equal facility In the use of the English system of weights und measures. |