It will be good, if the northern states bordering
Canada like Washington, Montana, N. Dakota Minnesota
and
southern states bordering Mexico like California,
Arizona, New Mexico Texas are allowed to take a few
extra metric steps like
Adding Kilometers to traffic signs,
Metric only labelling,
This is the copy of the letter that I posted yesterday
Adrian
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BROOKFIELD ISO 9001 CERTIFIED BROOKFIELD ENGINEERING LABORATORIES,
INC.11 Commerce Boulevard, Middleboro, MA 02346-1031 USATEL 508-946-6200
or 800-628-8139FAX
From: James R. Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: December 19, 2000 21:10
Bill Potts kindly converted the Word for Macintosh format to rtf and
sent me the Zissner document. Holy smokes! Here's a piece of equipment
that synthesizes and replicates raw
The original word is mètre and métrique is simply the adjectival form.
So, simply stated, the name of the system is derived from the first unit to
be defined.
The definition of métrique (Larousse, 1983) is "relatif au mètre."
Of course, we have Méchain and Delambre to thank for "mètre."
Bill
2000-12-20
What authority or reference do they use that points to "gm" as an industry
standard for gram? Unless "gm" is stated in some standard or document, then
they can not make that statement. You might want to ask Mr. David DiCorpo
how he determined this was an industry standard, and to
Mr. DiCorpo:
Thank you for your response to my inquiry.
I am afraid I do not understand what you mean by industry norms that specify
the abbreviation for the gram to be "gm". I would like to ask you to be so
kind to specify these sources so I can consult them. However, I know the
following
2000-12-20
Now, even though it was made in the US, it was sold in Canada, so is the
gallons US or imperial? I have a fairly new mop bucket with the label
still on it. It is a Rubbermaid product and in 3 languages states it is a
Bucket Seau Cubeta. The capacity is stated as 11 U.S. QT/ 10.4
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Adrian Jadic wrote:
Mr. DiCorpo:
...I know the following national and international standards that
specify the correct usage for SI units and abbreviations:
United States: IEEE/ASTM SI 10-1997, ...
International: ISO 1000; SI10 (see attached link to BIPM).
...
Adrian,
Hi Paul, et al.
I received the identical letter, not only from Dr. Melenchuk, but my wife received
this response from the secretary to the deputy minister.
It seems like we struck a large enough cord to at least get a form letter of of it.
Thanks for posting this, Paul. I just haven't had
I once asked Environment Canada for the formula so I could calculate the equivalent
temperature.
The instead sent me a small program that does it for me and a note saying that they
are coming up with a new system to calculate windchill since (if memory serves me
right) it was originally
I received a message on my CofC faculty mail list that contains a virus
(IRC/Stages.worm). My system caught it and protected me, I believe, but
I want to alert anyone who may have received mail from me today. The
subject of the message is "funny text". My system replaced the contents
of the
Yep! Except that what was measured was the time it took for freezing to
take place. There were no actual heat loss measurements, though those
were considered in the theoretical calculations in the background to the
research, apparently. Essentially, NWS operates from a "look-up" table,
though
I think you just answered your own question.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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Sent: December 20, 2000 10:09
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph B. Reid) wrote:
Subject: [USMA:9898] Re: Gillette continues to change
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:29:19 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph B. Reid)
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nikolay O. Malyar wrote in USMA 9884:
Another item of business,
I [love] the way
that people clutch at straws, and use trivial examples to try to make
metric look bad!
Chris
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Dear All,
It's that time of year when you might enjoy re-reading the following
contributions from this list.
Santa and SI
From: Howard Ressel
Subject: Santa and metric
Question:Does any one know if Santa uses SI?
Reply:SANTA CLAUS: An Engineering Perspective
Author unknown
There are
2000-12-20
Here is an portion of a web-page I found describing the visit a South
African student made to my cousins home. You may view the entire page at:
http://art1.candor.com/fpage/doc/wine01.htm . Look how the South African
freely uses SI without any reference to FFU, except for one
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:00:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph B. Reid)
wrote:
My impression from my visits to UK up to 10 years ago was that a British
pint beer glass held a pint when filled to the brim. When the glass was
filled to the brim some beer, and the froth, overflowed, messing up the
Ie. spending an eternity in that never-never land somewhere between British
Mixture Units and SI.
Duncan
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To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: December 20, 2000 17:20
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:21:54 -0500, "Gregory Peterson"
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The term "metric" is old (I do not know how old) from Greek. It means
measure.
France had many systems of measure, that is, metric systems. Each local
government had its own metric system. The national government of France made
up
one system of measures, specified to be decimal.So we
2000-12-20
OK! If you really must know who, it was Joule Pascal de la Métrique, a
French Howard Hughes, who secretly funded the surveying expeditions on the
condition the new measurement system was named after him.
John
Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrtümlich glaubt
2000-12-20
Gillette is not doing to well on the economic front. The Tuesday issue of
the Cleveland Plain Dealer business section front page had an article
entitled:
Job cuts mounting as profits cool down
Third paragraph: Aetna Inc. and the Gillette Co. yesterday joined a growing
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