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19th March
On this day in
1791
, the metric system, including the decimal subdivision of the circle, was advocated in a report made to the
Paris Academy of Sciences
. The committee consisted of
Borda
,
Lagrange
,
Laplace
,
Monge
and
Condorcet
.
See
THIS LINK
.