Excerpt from Metric Manual for Soldiers: The Soldier's Primer of the Metric-System, an International Decimal System of Weights and Measures Adopted as the Legal Standard by France and Thirty-Three Other Nations and in World-Wide Use A language of 10 words. - The metric system is a uni versal language of measure. It is a language of 10 words, as shown in the table following. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.