What unit of measurement should be used for specific reports? Whether printing out a check register or calculating square footage, using the correct team is essential. A size mistake can lead to ...

Humans have a need to quantify things. And sometimes the usual measurements — feet, meters, grams — are not good enough. Or funny enough. Sometimes you need to express things in bananas, Helens, or ...

Unit of account is the thing that measures the value of goods and services. It’s an essential function for something to be [or become?] money. In simple terms, it is a standard measure of value, a ...

In a world where grocery prices fluctuate and shopping budgets are stretched, understanding unit pricing can be your secret weapon for savings. Mastering the art of reading unit prices empowers you to ...

There’s been some confusion over the size of today’s explosion in China’s Tianjin province, with some people mistakenly thinking it was the largest non-nuclear explosion of all time. It was not — that ...

What does it really mean when we say last week's meteor delivered a force 30 times the size of the Hiroshima bomb? And, wow, that sure seems big. And it's true: The Russian meteor was a monster -- the ...

Of all the things we expected to come out of the rise of Oculus and the still-burgeoning era of consumer virtual reality, a new fundamental unit of time was not one of them. But that's just what ...