Reading the numbers : a survival guide to the measurements, numbers, and sizes encountered in everyday life /

Blocksma, Mary.

Reading the numbers : a survival guide to the measurements, numbers, and sizes encountered in everyday life / Mary Blocksma. - New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1989. - xv, 224 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 211-214.

0140106545 (pbk.) : $7.95 ($10.95 Can.)

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Weights and measures.
Weights and measures--United States.

QC88 / .B54 1989

530.8