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A: The metric system was developed in France during the eighteenth century to provide a uniform system of measurement to replace widely differing systems then in existence. Metric measurement includes weight, volume, length, area, capacity and temperature and is based on multples being to the power of ten. The intention was to make measurements uniform throughout the world and introduce a set of universal standards in places such as research laboratories. Frenchman Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, Prince de Benevent, Bishop of Autun and Sir John Riggs Miller of England, jointly championed the metric system in the 1790s. By 1840 France made metrication mandatory. At the Metric Conference of 1875 in France, seventeen additional countries signed the Treaty of the Meter.
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