On 2010/06/15, at 11:42 , Bill Hooper wrote:
On Jun 14 , at 8:52 PM, Brian White wrote:
But Bill, regardless-- (1800cc is) pronounced eighteen hundred see
see. And, That's hardly a problem.
I agree that it IS done the way you say. What I am saying is, that
it is not correct SI to say it
You are of course correct, but good luck with that. The principal culprits
with that are European countries and manufacturers, who are more metric than we
are (Same is true of the misused kilogram-force, directly, in pressure units,
and metric horsepower.). They will probably not accept
I heard the new Geico metric commercial yesterday promoting National
Metric Day on 10/10, very funny. I love the end...
Anyone else here it?
What are you going to do on National Metric Day?
A. - I'm going to go measure something.
--
Go for a Metric America
Howard Ressel
Project Design
Bill,
The *composition* of the leaking crude oil is most critical for the cleanup.
What *mass* fraction or percentage of each constituent (solid, liquid, or gas)
is to be ignored (evaporated) or cleaned up? How much sand, tar, benzene,
propane, ... , methane is in the leaking crude oil?
The
Bill,
The *ideal* end result is rarity of units outside the SI, as is approximated in
most countries.
Censoring, purging, or deprecating non-SI units are but some of the possible
steps toward the *ideal* state of metrology.
Gene.
Original message
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:25:34
The AP Stylebook online (2010) appears to be closed.
The Blog has only old entries, repeatedly advocating website rather than Web
site.
Original message
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:10:06 -0400
From: Bill Hooper billhoope...@gmail.com
Subject: [USMA:47789] Re: Correcting the AP Style
I recently had a helpful exchange with Pat Naughten about the difficulty of
producing the SI symbols for square metre and cubic metre and others in email
messages.
He had a suggestion that works on my iMac but I have no way of knowing if the
exponents I type (which appear correctly on MY
Your superscripts show up fine on my Mac using Safari. I wonder if you
could tell me how you produced them?
- Andrew Winn
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Bill Hooper billhoope...@gmail.comwrote:
I recently had a helpful exchange with Pat Naughten about the difficulty of
producing the SI
These show up correctly on my PC (Vista, Thunderbird email reader).
Jim
Bill Hooper wrote:
I recently had a helpful exchange with Pat Naughten about the difficulty
of producing the SI symbols for square metre and cubic metre and others
in email messages.
He had a suggestion that works on
They show fine on my PC (Win7, IE8)
From: Bill Hooper billhoope...@gmail.com
To: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
Sent: Tue, June 15, 2010 12:01:46 PM
Subject: [USMA:47798] superscripts for SI symbols
I recently had a helpful exchange with Pat
OK on my laptop - Windows 7, Mozilla Firefox, webmail using Zimbra account.
- Original Message -
From: Bill Hooper billhoope...@gmail.com
To: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
Sent: Tuesday, 15 June, 2010 5:01:46 PM
Subject: [USMA:47798] superscripts for SI symbols
I recently
Fine here too. Windows 7, Outlook 2007.
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf
Of John M. Steele
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 13:12
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:47801] Re: superscripts for SI symbols
They show fine on my PC (Win7, IE8)
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 12:01:46 Bill Hooper wrote:
Here is the example:
The cubic metre symbol is m³ and the square metre symbol is m².
I'm running KDE on Linux and it looks fine to me.
Pierre
--
lo ponse be lo mruli po'o cu ga'ezga roda lo ka dinko
At 2010-06-15T12:01-0400, Bill Hooper wrote:
He had a suggestion that works on my iMac but I have no way of knowing if
the exponents I type (which appear correctly on MY computer) will show up
correctly on other people's computers (particularly on non-Apple
computers).
Yes, they
I would greatly appreciate it if certain people refrained from sending big
video attachments with their emails. This particular one was 7.33MB and as I
only have dial-up, it took more than an hour to download the damn thing.
Maybe send it as a zip file next time?
The article uses gallons, but the leak estimate has been increased to a range
of 35000 - 6 barrels per day.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100615/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_flow
(In my view, the way they express it in gallons implies rediculously more
precision than exists.)
Part
The article uses gallons, but the leak estimate has been increased to a
range of 35000 - 6 barrels per day.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100615/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_flow
(In my view, the way they express it in gallons implies rediculously more
precision than exists.)
Part
Leak (Estimate) Increases Again
The article uses gallons, but the leak estimate has been increased to a range
of 35000 - 6 barrels per day.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100615/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_flow
(In my view, the way they express it in gallons implies rediculously more
(Estimate) Increases Again
To: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
The article uses gallons, but the leak estimate has
been increased to a range of 35000 - 6 barrels
per day.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100615/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_flow
(In my view, the way
I posted the following comment on UKMA's Metric Views blog:
As I pondered the latest metric news from the UK and the government's
statements about imperialization, I wondered: what about the Chunnel?
In one sense, Great Britain is no longer an island. There is a ground
connection between it
There has been one pressure - the proportion of foreign lorries on our roads
has increased considerably and shortly before the last election, the
Government set out for discussion proposed legislation that would have made
it made it mandatory for height, width and length warning and restriction
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