Gene and all,
Most products are SI only, others are SI (ifp) and a few are ifp (SI), Estee
Lauder and Donna Karan are ifp English, ifp French, SI, justified by citing
a (wrong) interpretation of Canadian.English/French language labeling
requirements.
I contacted our own measurement service about
At 23:23 -0400 00/10/27, Norman Werling wrote:
Can anyone tell me what the French quotation marks are called in French?
Guillemets. In good French, guillemets are « and ». But the anglo
saxon type " and "
is also of common use.
My professeur says we will not use the (Alt144) upper case É in
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 07:37:17 +0200, you wrote:
What is this idea about only using 1000-multiples?
The cm and cL are two of the most useful units in everyday-metric system.
The might not fit in some 1000-pattern but that is no reason to prevent people
from using them. Ordinary people don't care
Engineers also prefer only multiples of 3 for the exponents in
scientific notation, resulting in what is sometimes referred to as
"engineering notation".
Jim
kilopascal wrote:
2000-10-28
The "restriction" on the prefixes centi, deci, deka and hecto come mostly
from the engineering
2000-10-28
I'm not surprised that people don't go around figuring their fuel
consumption, whether it is in litres per 100 kilometres, or miles per
gallon. What purpose is there in it anyway? If you already own the car and
you have to get around, what reason would you care how much fuel it
John Schweisthal wrote:
Even when buying a vehicle, most people are not concerned about the fuel
consumption. They look more for dependability, and style.
In Britain, where people pay more than 80 pence ($1.17) per liter, they
definitely care about fuel consumption when they buy a car.
The
2000-10-28
Then, you concern yourself with it before you buy the vehicle. Because once
you have the vehicle, there is nothing you can do to make the vehicle more
fuel efficient. Calculating the fuel consumption after each fill-up is not
going to tell you anything, except where there might be a
The prefixes centi-, deci-, deca and hecto are fully recognized side by side
with the 1000-pattern and Gustaf is right. Also see p. 103 of the SI
brochure by the BIPM, it gives all recognized prefixes,
Han
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An: "U.S.
I completely agree with Bill that one should not say "five point
thirty-two." One should say "five point three two." My original example that
caused this flap was only meant to convey that the normal American practice
of pronouncing a three-digit number such as 532 as "five thirty-two" could,
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Subject: Watch that football game on TV! [Yahoo! Clubs: Metric America]
And as you watch the TV football game, think about how small the effort
would be if college
Bill Potts wrote:
Norm:
If you bring up the Character Map application, you will see that it
specifies Alt=0xxx, rather than Alt+xxx. The four digit value (even though
the first digit is always zero) is the one that will give you all the
possible characters. Note that, where either the four or
Joe Reid wrote:
My Eudora produced a tall rectangle for the circumflexed letters
that Bill quoted.
The Shorter Oxford dictionary confirms the diaerisis (also
dierisis) comes from Greek.
I hope those aren't the spellings they give. g
It's diæresis or dieresis. (The ae ligature on the first
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