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- History
- Current exceptions
- See also
- References
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2014}}Sweden adopted the metric system in 1878, using a ten-year transition period from 1879 to 1888.[1]HistoryThe metric system was adopted by law on 22 November 1878.[1] This law stated that the introduction should take place progressively from 1879 to 1888, and that the metric system should be used exclusively from the beginning of 1889. Current exceptions- Television sets and displays of any kind have their diagonal measured in inches.
- Lumber and pipes are sold in metric length, but their width, thickness and diameter are measured in both inches (defined as 25 mm) and in metres.
- Textile is normally sold in metres but the thread count is in threads per square inch.
- The price of gold, is quoted in US dollars per ounce.
- McDonald's sells its Quarter Pounder with cheese as Quarter Pounder Cheese or QP Cheese
- The number of teeth on a saw is measured in teeth per inch (TPI)
- Hammers are measured in millimetres but weighed in ounces.
- Watering hoses' length are measured in metres, but the diameter is measured in inches.
- Sailing yachts are measured in feet.
- Road distances larger than 10 kilometres are usually given in mil, a 10 km long metric successor of the slightly longer Swedish mile. Fuel consumption of cars is usually given in liters per mil. However, on road signs etc., km is used.
- the old unit of length mil, redefined in 1876 as 10 km, is however still in everyday use, including that fuel consumption for motor vehicles is always given as "liter per mil", both in everyday speech and in advertising; in some contexts, such as calculating cost of ownership of a vehicle ("milkostnad", i.e. cost per mil) and reimbursement for using a privately owned vehicle instead of a company car ("milersättning"), the mil is even still used in legal texts, in spite of officially not being a legal unit of length.
- World oil price is quoted in US dollars per Barrels
- The metric yardstick is commonly called tumstock (tum is the Swedish word for inch), instead of the recommended meterstock or måttstock. It was during the 20th century usually graded in (English) inches and centimetres, but increasingly only in centimetres.
- The power of fuel powered engines is given in horse power instead of watt, but electrical engines in watt.
See also- Swedish units of measurement
References1. ^1 Metersystemet in Nordisk familjebok (1913) {{sv icon}}
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