News of the strictly decimal initiative

Abstract

Year after year, the U.S. will lose millions of dollars to useless arithmetic, convening yards into miles and vice versa. The problem is serious enough to threaten the leading role of the U.S. economy. Therefore, the President has decided to stop arithmetic fatalism and pessimism, and has launched a new movement, called the Strictly Decimal Initiative, aimed at introducing a revolutionary law in mathematics stating that 2 10 = 1000.