It is also called metric system. All units (except time) base on 10 and you can write ANY other unit of the SI with using a combination of the 7 base units. This make it quite useful if you have ...

the only one of the SI's seven base units* still defined in terms of a material "artifact": a 130-year-old platinum-iridium cylinder maintained at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures ...

(Courtesy: BIPM) The redefinition of four units of the International System of Units (SI) will come into effect on Monday 20 May meaning that all seven base units are now based on fundamental physical ...

If approved, these changes would involve redefining the seven SI base units in terms of fundamental physical constants or atomic properties. The most significant of these changes would be to the ...

"This redefined SI is how we share ... Now, a kilogram, like each of the seven base units of measure, will hinge on unchanging properties of nature—the speed of light, the wavelength of known ...