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Show Time Saved by System. In a cport made to the house of rep- I teseniatives by the committee on coinage, coin-age, weights and measures, which favored fa-vored tho adoption of the metric system sys-tem by the government of the I'nited Suites, it was pointed out that, according accord-ing to estimates made by the bureau of education and others, two-thirds of a year would be saved by the adoption of the metric arithmetic. it is also : averred, as a matter of evidence. Hint j the metric system ami 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 Fuglish system of weights and measures. ! |