Re: exactly when did the metric system develop?

Exactly when did the metric system develop?

I have another question too, it's just to prove a point, it is what came first the chicken or the egg? If you would please answer these questions for me and e-mail them back to me I would really like that. Thanks for your time.
Timothy J. Walling

Interestingly enough, US currency is decimal (rather than based on the former English system of pence/shillings/pounds/half-crowns/what-have-you) because the US was friendly with France at the time that France adopted decimal currency. This country did not adopt the metric system because, at the time France introduced it, we were no longer so friendly with France.

The answer to your second question is simpler. In terms of the history of life on Earth, there were eggs around (worm eggs, trilobite eggs, insect eggs, fish eggs, amphibian eggs, reptile eggs, ...) for quite a while before there were chickens. Whether you call the egg from which the "first chicken" emerged a chicken's egg is a semantic question which has little to do with truth.

Yer friendly MadSci Administrator,