Elaborating on the article of the Watley Review supplied by Nat
Hager, I would suggest to those interested to go to
http://www.watleyreview.com/2003/072903-1.html
What the article does not say is that the writer Georges Perec
published in 1969 a 320-page book which does not include the letter
At 9:44 -0800 14/08/03, David Shatto wrote:
This is a great idea! I wonder why all economists haven't widely adopted
this (economics is alleged to be a science, you know.)
I can just imagine having the following conversation:
Dad, can I have a dekadollar to go out with my friends?
No, sorry kid,
Title: Re: [USMA:26548] Watley Archives Metric System
Increas
At 4:56 -0400 11/08/03, Nat Hager III wrote:
This is
really off-the-wall
Metric
System to Blame for Increased Food Portions
The problem, said White House
spokesman Scott McClellan, is that the metric system was
invented by the
At 17:07 +1000 20/06/03, Pat Naughtin wrote:
Andro Linklater, in his book 'Measuring America' (Walker 2003), gives a
better description of the dual nature of Gunter's Chain as both a decimal
and a binary measuring instrument. Linklater also explores some of the
possibilities of these dual land
Title: Re: [USMA:25961] my German friend never heard of
SI
At 13:43 -0500 7/06/03, Paul Trusten, R.Ph. wrote:
For just
about as long as I've been following this list, I have had a German
pen pal in Berlin. Last week,I sent her something I had
written,
and it was
peppered with the acronym SI.
At 11:24 +1000 8/06/03, Pat Naughtin wrote:
Dear Norman,
You refer to the adoption, by the USA, of decimal currency (in 1793 I
think). Do you know if the USA was the first nation in the world to adopt
decimal currency, or was there any other nation who had done so earlier?
Yes, it was. France
Title: Re: [USMA:25870] EU and 2009
At 18:16 -0500 27/05/03, Paul Trusten, R.Ph. wrote:
Hello,
friends, I am now returning to the list after a long hiatus. Glad to
be back.
Glad you are back with us, Paul
So as
not to take up the list's time, where can I read about the latest on
the EU
and its
At 13:47 -0700 27/05/03, M R wrote:
Louis wrote
France:
Electricity: kWh
Gas: kWh
Water: cubic meter
That is surprising, households buy water bottles from
shops in liters, but the tap water is measured in
cubic meters. Do they want to be purists.
No, but just imagine the number of bottles to
At 8:19 -0800 03/02/3, Ma Be wrote:
Would you or anyone else be able to ascertain the reason for their
absence? Were they participants in this forum either as invited
guests or otherwise?
After finding that out, *then* I think we should take **immediate**
action on this by alerting the
At 0:22 -0500 03/01/25, kilopascal wrote:
I'm not sure if there is any movement to harmonise all of the different
sockets in the EU into one standard socket. It really isn't that important
because as noted most small appliances use the two pin plug that fits into
most, if not all without an
Title: Re: [USMA:24491] Help Needed
At 8:23 +1100 03/01/19, John Nichols wrote:
I am writing a paper that I have about 1
week to finish
I need to know where the barrel of oil term comes from and what is 42
US galllons in SI.
Not sure that this exerpt of my book (in French) can help you -
sorry,
Title: Re: [USMA:24493] Quad
At 9:12 +1100 03/01/19, John Nichols wrote:
74.5 quads or 12.5 billion barrels of oil
equivalent (bbls).
Any ideas what a quad is?
Again from Rowlett:
quad
a unit of energy
equal to 10^15 (one quadrillion) Btu or about
1.055 petajoules or 293.07 terawatt hours
At 9:25 +1100 03/01/19, John Nichols wrote:
curious unity, not at all belonging to the IF, dominates the
industry of the oil: the barrel (barrel, symbol bl or bbl - why two
b?). One rediscovers it in the estimation of the reserves - one
speaks then in billion barrels or Bbbl (three b!), in the
Title: Re: [USMA:24506] Re: Quad
At 20:56 -0500 03/01/18, Joseph B. Reid wrote:
Louis Jourdan wrote in USMA 24497:
Again from Rowlett:
quad
a unit of energy
equal to 10^15 (one quadrillion)
Btu or about 1.055 petajoules or
293.07 terawatt hours (TWh).
From Cardarelli:
1 quad
= 1.05505585262
Title: Re: [USMA:23872] Re: Exam and
center
At 16:33 -0500 02/12/9, Joseph B. Reid wrote:
I had previously written about the French
toise and verge. Could it be that the toise and verge were used
to measure short and medium distances and that the aune was used to
measure cloth, like the British
At 22:31 -0500 02/12/4, Bruce Hebbard wrote:
The coordinates cited below are almost certainly ECEF or
Earth Centered, Earth Fixed, as described by Peter H. Dana
(which is about all I know about this :)...
[begin quote]
* Earth centered, earth-fixed, X, Y, and Z, Cartesian coordinates
(XYZ)
At 23:16 + 02/12/2, David Jones wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to find out the longitude of the Dunkirk-Barcelona meridian
along which measurements were made in 1739-40 (Lacaille and J Cassini)
and 1792-98 (Mechain and Delambre) in order to define the metre.
Some authors wrongly state or assume that
At 17:22 + 02/12/3, David Jones wrote:
Thanks for this, Louis. May I ask your source for this info? I'm curious
as to the reason why they didn't use the Paris Observatory meridian. The
above figures would give a (quasi-)meridian some 25-30 miles to the west
of it at Paris - a lot.
David
My
At 14:58 -0500 02/12/3, Joseph B. Reid wrote:
Denis Guedj in his Le Mètre du Monde, Éditions du Seuil, ISBN
2-02-040718-3, wrote: (I translate)
Delambre wrote: 'We see here the Barcelona observations and the
three seconds by which they differed from those at Montjouy...to
conceal the
At 9:00 +1100 02/12/4, Pat Naughtin wrote:
Dear Louis,
Thanks for the longitude information (below) but could you add the longitude
for the BIPM that I believe is also slightly west of Paris.
longitude (deg., decimal) 2.2197 E
latitude (deg., decimal) 48.8296 N
Further information?
At 0:45 + 02/12/4, David Jones wrote:
But the longitude for
the Paris meridian, measured from Greenwich, is not 2° 50' E. The
correct figure is 2° 20' E.
Quite right. I don't why I took this wrong value of 2° 50'. All
references give for Paris (observatory)
latitude 48° 50' N
longitude
At 10:51 +1100 02/12/4, Pat Naughtin wrote:
Dear Louis,
Thanks very much for this information.
You remind me of a story I heard of a poet (name forgotten) who found
himself in a Master of Business Administration program at Harvard. He said
the experience was like wanting a sip of water to
At 12:02 -0500 02/11/30, James R. Frysinger wrote:
According to the Amazon web site the book is available for $54.95+S/H.
Springer-Verlag is not the world's most inexpensive publisher! The
paperback book is reported to have 550 pages in its second edition
(1999).
This detailed guide is truly
At 19:43 -0500 02/11/29, kilopascal wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Mike Joy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 2002-11-29 19:30
Subject: Fw: [USMA:23563] RE: CNN, metric products
John,
Oprah interviewed an author in 2000 on his new book A Practical Guide to
At 14:21 -0800 02/11/18, Bill Potts wrote:
Han:
Let me be the first to congratulate you.
With due respect to you, Bill, I contend I was the first: my
(private) message to Han was sent on Monday 17:38 (MET), yours on
Monday aswell, but at 23:21 (MET).
I had indeed good reasons to do so: first,
At 8:57 +1100 02/11/19, Pat Naughtin wrote:
As a side issue, you might like to compare this last average with the apple
that is supposed to have fallen on Sir Isaac Newton's head in his garden at
Woolsthorpe. Presumably Newton's apple had a weight of one newton, and we
can safely assume that the
At 18:09 -0500 02/11/18, kilopascal wrote:
2002-11-18
That depends Bill. Maybe SI is the official measurement system in heaven.
All those unbelievers in the holy trinity (the holy metre, the holy litre,
and the holy kilogram) go straight to the FFU hell at their death, where
they spend an
At 18:07 -0500 02/11/19, kilopascal wrote:
2002-11-19
Why do you say that? It was meant to be funny. It wasn't meant to be
offensive.
John,
You misunderstood me - probably because of my poor mastering of
English language!
I wanted to be funny aswell, meaning that you condemned these poor
At 11:56 -0500 02/11/10, kilopascal wrote:
I don't really have a problem with 370 g. I would consider it
semi-rational. It is a number that ends in a zero, even though, it would be
better if it was 350 g or 400 g. What I would oppose are sizes that are
obviously hidden FFU. If it were labeled
At 11:56 -0500 02/11/10, kilopascal wrote:
2002-11-10
I don't really have a problem with 370 g. I would consider it
semi-rational. It is a number that ends in a zero, even though, it would be
better if it was 350 g or 400 g. What I would oppose are sizes that are
obviously hidden FFU. If it
At 15:30 -0800 02/11/7, Ma Be wrote:
On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 10:27:20
Jim Elwell wrote:
At 7 November 2002, 09:04 AM, Ma Be wrote:
First of all, there should be a *LEGAL* deterrent developed to PREVENT the
use of weird sizes, like 227, 28, 29, 454... (you get the picture),
simply because:
1)
Title: Re: [USMA:23136] Re: The Daily Northwestern - The
meas
At 19:20 -0500 02/11/6, kilopascal wrote:
2002-11-06
These types of statements
that may seem harmless to some of us can be picked up by the
anti-metric crowd and by the average man and woman on the street who
know nothing about the
At 11:38 + 2002/10/31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At the risk of contradiction, I assure you that in this anglo-saxon
culture (UK), the week starts on Monday.
Thanks, Terry. Today I learnt something! Also many thanks to Bill,
Joe and Marcus who brought interesting information.
I recognize
At 12:56 -0700 02/10/30, Jim Elwell wrote:
Does anyone know what the following date formats mean? The email is
from an Intel plant in the Philippines.
From: Ochoco, Larizelle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Tom Oaks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: SM# 07221168 (RMA K4491).
Date: Thu,
At 15:50 -0700 02/10/30, Jim Elwell wrote:
Mike Joy wrote:
Yes, that's right Jim.
In Europe, it's written as 45/1 and 1 is always a Monday.
Mike
Interesting, because Louis' translation to calendar dates presumes
that 1 is Sunday, and Louis is from France:
Correct, but I am aware that in
At 14:42 -0600 02/10/8, Jim Elwell wrote:
An interesting and delightful book review in the New Yorker, by David Owen:
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?021014crbo_books1
Has Ken Alder read my book? If so, I will certainly not exert my
copyright. On the contrary, I would be delighted to
At 13:24 -0600 02/10/8, Jim Elwell wrote:
I'll quote Thomas Jefferson to close:
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from
injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to
regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall
not take from the mouth of
At 18:38 +0200 02/09/24, Louis JOURDAN wrote:
At 12:20 -0400 02/09/24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, there's also an ALT button on the right side. This one lets you
use additional characters, mostly accents plus that thingy that
hangs under the C
We call it cédille. Nice, is it not? When hanging
At 15:01 +0200 02/09/10, Wizard of OS wrote:
Your uncle needs a bill redesign too!
Wiz,
To-morrow is the anniversary of 11 September 2001. Could you be
decent to our American friends, please?
Louis
Title: Re: [USMA:22072] Re: mole
photon
At 17:01 + 02/09/4, Barbara and/or Bill Hooper wrote:
SI is a system of UNITS not a system of
QUANTITIES. Length is a quantity;
meter is its SI unit. Refractive index is a quantity; it is unitless
(in any
system of units).
Taken from the book
At 22:09 +0200 02/09/5, Wizard of OS wrote:
easy explanation, electronic payment isn't welcome in europe, people prefer
cash.
almost all shops accept EC Card but virtually no one Credit Cards, no shop
wants to pay for the fees!
This may be true in Germany, but certainly not in France and many
At 16:40 -0600 02/09/3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is in Korean mythology a famous
measuring unit that denotes a era long period of time. To gauge how long
that period is, one is asked to imagine a mountain made of solid granite,
exactly one mile high. Once every thousand years an angel flies
At 18:54 -0400 02/09/3, James R. Frysinger wrote:
Perhaps the very complex Library of Congress (LOC) classification
scheme is the antithesis of the Dewey Decimal System. I've never
understood the LOC system. Yet, that seems to be the system preferred by
large libraries. As far as I can tell,
At 10:48 + 02/09/4, Barbara and/or Bill Hooper wrote:
I have always found it difficult to understand how the mole can be
considered a unit of anything, photons or otherwise. (I admit that SI does
indeed define it as a unit. But that doesn't mean that I understand it.)
I sympathize with your
At 11:37 +0200 02/09/3, Wizard of OS wrote:
hey Louis,, you're french, you should know best. Don't write km/hr!
Sorry, I just quoted the paper from the US DOT. Nobody can be perfect...
Louis
At 11:27 -0400 02/09/3, kilopascal wrote:
On the other hand, as an award, all trains except for a sleeper car
and AutoZug can be used. Round-trip tickets of 3nd class need 15,000
miles, and 1st class 20,000miles.
3d class? There is a long time that 3d class has disappeared from
European
Title: Dewey Decimal System
I just found the following phrase in a book on universal
expositions (World's fairs and the end of progress, Alfred
Heller, World's Fair, Inc. 1999):
Everything at the Centennial [the Centennial
International Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876] was classified in one of
At 9:14 -0400 02/09/1, kilopascal wrote:
Does anyone in Euroland use or say centieuros or just cents? Maybe the
Germans still call the centieuro a pfennig, no? What about writing it out?
Is it always 0.25 ? or maybe 25 c?? How is it done?
Centieuro is not an official term in any of the
Title: Re: [USMA:22021] Fwd: [A_A] millimeter
tolerance
At 17:33 -0400 02/09/2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Although posted to a
railroad list, this might interest the metric list as well.
Note: I replied that the inch is EXACTLY 25.4 mm, by
definition.
Carleton
So it appears that the issue was
At 21:50 -0400 29/08/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The article has a good picture of the cercle repetiteur, which also appears
on page 41 of L'Aventure du Metre, but I can not figure out how it works.
Somebody, tell me how it works; what is repeated?
At 22:52 -0400 29/08/2002, David Owen wrote:
At 14:03 -0400 26/08/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2002 August 26
On July 22 I ordered La Grande Metrication from the Tattered Cover Book
Store in Denver, Colorado. I received it on August 24.
The total cost was $22.58 which included $5.00 for shipping.
It is a
At 20:06 -0400 16/08/2002, kilopascal wrote:
2002-08-16
I wonder if Esperanto is a metric only language. Does anyone know if
Esperanto accommodates FFU?
The esperanto language was developed from 1874 on by a young Jewish
student, Lejzer Ludwig Zamenhof. In the city of Bialystok where he
At 8:05 -0700 12/08/2002, Ma Be wrote:
? Brij, the current meter can *already* be linked to that! 0.01 g = 1 km!
I suspect you meant 0.01 gr. gr used to be the symbol for grade.
That is what I was taught at school. A couple of years ago...
Louis
At 20:08 + 02/08/10, Brij Bhushan Vij wrote:
Hi Mike:
The French failure of the Calendar and Time were not the reasons
that it lacked its links with the NUMBER system, but the *failure to
link arc-angle with TIME zones* i.e. the hour-angle. If this was
done,in that *had the Nautical
At 11:00 -0400 8/08/2002, Joseph B. Reid wrote:
I think that M.R.Madam has read too much into the CNN report. CNN
mentioned that the speed of light is approximately 300 000 km/s, they gave
no other figure, nor did the despatch state how fast the speed of light is
slowing down. Until we get more
At 19:06 -0500 3/08/2002, Gene Mechtly wrote:
Trystan Mordrel or Mordrel Trystan,
Is Trystan, or Mordrel, your first name, and what is your gender?
I suppose I would already know without asking if I were more fluent
in French.
Gene Mechtly.
In case Trystan does not read his recent messages:
in the metrication of their
country!
Louis
--
Louis JOURDAN
12 rue Francois Menez
F - 35700 RENNES
Tel/fax +33 (0)2 9927 2588
port. 06 8168 8605
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/louis.jourdan/
At 8:29 +1000 18/07/2002, Pat Naughtin wrote:
By the way, do you know of any movement or gathering that was held in France
in about 1304. I've seen reference to such a conference, many years ago, but
unfortunately I can no longer find the original source.
Pat,
Could you be more precise, e.g.
At 11:34 -0400 16/07/2002, Joseph B. Reid wrote:
I suspect that the French car manuals use the cheval vapeur or CV. It
is defined as 75 metre kilogram-force = 735.50 W = 0,986 32 horsepower.
Not really. In fact in most European countries car engines power is
given in two units: kW and CV DIN,
At 11:31 +1000 16/07/2002, Pat Naughtin wrote:
'The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation
corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the
ground state of the caesium 133 atom. This definition refers to a caesium
atom in its ground state at a
At 14:29 +0100 15/07/2002, Tom Wade VMS Systems wrote:
The equivalent speed limit in France is 130 km/h and in Germany anything you
can do without losing control.
Only a few stretches of German highways, of low traffic, have no
speed limit. In congested areas, speed is limited at 120 km/h, 100
At 13:06 -0500 15/07/2002, Gene Mechtly wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Bill Potts wrote:
Strangely enough, when French sentences end in ? or !, there's a space
before the punctuation. It can screw up line wrap no end in a word
processor.
Bill and Louis,
Yes, I notice that Louis includes the
At 11:51 -0400 14/07/2002, kilopascal wrote:
2002-07-14
Funny, I don't speak French, but I understood everything you wrote here.
John
- Original Message -
From: James R. Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL
At 22:24 -0400 12/07/2002, James R. Frysinger wrote:
Merci, mon ami, pour votre secours! Je chercherai cette femme dans la
marche. (Sil vous plait, corrige ma grammaire.)
Merci, mon ami, pour votre aide. Je chercherai cette dame au marché.
(S'il vous plaît, corrigez ma grammaire)
Jim,
Jim,
I do respect your opinions, even if I don't share all of them, but
there are a few points in your last message that I feel compelled to
respond. First, to remain in the topic of this servlist:
At 15:02 -0600 12/07/2002, Jim Elwell wrote:
...Europeans are hardly the only people using or
You remember the information Jim Frysinger circulated a few days ago,
about jars and cans from a small company in South of France, having
labels where the content was given in GRS, not in g. Jim suggested
that somebody from France wrote to the company to correct them.
I took up the challenge,
At 13:54 +0200 8/07/2002, Wizard of OS wrote:
maybe you should add, the car is a european (german) invention
Otto, Diesel and Wankel were germans, what a coincidence
Right - but Lenoir, who in 1860 made the first 2-stroke engine with
controlled ignition (fed with gas) was a Belgian, Beau de
At 11:46 -0600 8/07/2002, Vigen, Gary wrote:
Arlington, TX has repeatedly rejected public transportation over
the last 20 years thru referendum. It has the honor of largest US
city without
public transportation.
The city where I live, Rennes, in west part of France, has the honor
of being
At 9:22 -0400 7/07/2002, kilopascal wrote:
2.) All i know about Diesel fuel is it is dirty and in the winter time it
gels and the cars won't go. Trucks (lorrys) and other similar vehicles do
use Diesel fuel. But, most cars don't. Also, the use of manual shifted
transmissions is not as common
Title: Re: [USMA:20809] Re: Help, anyone? Opera
question!
At 13:23 +1000 02/07/4, Pat Naughtin wrote:
Another satisfaction comes from the
inbuilt operatic gestures that are
possible based on this conjecture, and that they could well fit within
the
constraints of the 16 bars of
music.
whaoo!
Last night a dramatic accident took place above Switzerland : a
Tupolev plane from a Russian company and a Boeing from the DHL
company have telescoped while cruising at an altitude of 11 000 m.
According to first information, the Russian pilots have
misinterpreted instructions from flight
I have been on line with EU Commissioner Pascal Lamy during his
2-hour chat today. He answered my question (see my message of
2002/06/24) but in general terms, saying he was 100 % for the metric
system... No real commitment therefore.
I noticed that John Woelflein also put a question, on what
At 23:43 +0100 02/06/20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quote:
In 1882, his name was given a permanent place in the vocabulary of
science and the world at the suggestion of C. W. Siemens, who, in his
Presidential Address to the British Association, made the following
proposal:
The other unit I would
At 20:49 +0200 02/06/15, Han Maenen wrote:
I have bought Louis' book La Grande Metrication and I love it!
Many thanks, Han!
I understand from the publisher that the book has some success.
Louis
Valerie
Many thanks for the copy of the last issue of Metric Today which
includes a report on my book.
You might be interested to know that yesterday morning I was
interviewed for 1 1/2 hour on the book by a French radio program
(Europe 1). Lively discussion, with numerous questions put by
At 14:16 -0400 02/06/1, kilopascal wrote:
2002-06-01
The increase of the Euro at the expense of the Dollar will hurt the American
economy. That is a fact!
So, now do you understand where I am coming from?
John
OK, you convinced me. I knew that the US was taking benefit of the
high volume
Who has information about metrication in Korea, both North and South ?
Thanks in advance
Louis
At 9:05 -0600 02/05/30, Jim Elwell wrote:
I think you folks make a mistake by equating liberal = pro-metric
and conservative = anti-metric. While there may be some weak
correlation at the extreme anti-metric end (meaning that rabid
anti-metricationists may generally be nationalistic which may
I have been invited to present my book and speak about metric system
and SI at a French radio program (Europe 1, Yves Calvi) next Tuesday
4 June from 9 to 10. 30 (European time).
Those who understand French and are not too much concerned by the
time lag could listen at it at
At 23:18 -0400 02/05/23, James Frysinger wrote:
Alas, the crate it was packed in is marked as having a volume of 907 cu dm.
Perhaps Chris, Louis, or Leonardo can comment on acceptable labels on packing
materials for goods imported into the EU. Why do they accept cu dm instead
of dm3? Will that
At 4:29 -0800 02/05/23, James Wentworth wrote:
I just found a new symbol for the meter on a German web site (the text is in
English): http://members.tripod.com/e_friend/circuit/antenna.html
The author used a ' to denote meters (see the German Quad Antenna and 40
Meter Loop Antenna near the
At 9:17 -0700 02/05/17, Bill Potts wrote:
I'm at a loss to understand Han's refusal, on principle, to avail himself of
the benefits of what, after all, is a competitive reward system for customer
loyalty. I don't care what units they use. It is, after all, a special form
of currency, rather than
At 20:09 -0400 02/05/3, kilopascal wrote:
2002-05-03
Is the once liquide a legal unit anywhere in the EU that it can be used as
a secondary indicator? Just because the EU 80/181 directive allows for
secondary indicators up to 2010, does not imply that any old unit may be
used.
A quote from
Next Sunday France will vote for a new President. One of the
candidates is Mr Le Pen, who wants France withdraw from European
Union and euro.
I fear that Mr Le Pen, if elected, will also withdraw France from the
Metric System and SI: as he put all his government program under the
patronage
At 20:13 -0500 02/04/25, Gene Mechtly wrote:
Louis,
On April 22, you quoted an exchange rate of 0.89 at your bank.
When my payment for a copy of your book was implemented this morning,
the rate I paid was 0.9326 (21.45 US$ for 23.00 euros).
Has the euro risen in value that much in only three
the appropriate identification (name? and
number?) of your bank, and an account number for the deposit of my
payment.
Bank: BNP PARIBAS
RENNES - CHAMP JACQUET
Account holder: LOUIS JOURDAN
Account number: 30004 00241 0025778 03
IBAN: FR76 3000 4002 4100 2577 803
(I have been told
At 12:59 -0700 02/04/22, M R wrote:
We talked enough in support of Euro,
now the French (Engineers behind Euro)
have voted for a right-wing, anti-Euro, racist
candidate as the 2nd favorite choice.
What makes 17 % of French vote for a person who
supports the holocaust.
For some time, we should
At 22:09 -0400 02/04/21, kilopascal wrote:
2002-04-21
One thing that might have helped increase the sale of gasoline/petrol to
litre pricing would have been the switch from mechanical to electronic
pumps.
Not sure: with electronic pumps it is very easy to change anything,
be it price per liter
At 10:35 -0500 02/04/20, Gene Mechtly wrote:
I intend to buy your book *in French* when is is available in Illinois,
or when I discover another convenient source (absent posting of credit
card information on the Internet).
Would you accept my personal check (in $US) for the cost of your book and
At 16:48 +0100 02/04/18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... il avait été finalement emprisonné, puis condamné à six mois de
prison avec sursis.
Does that translate to English as ...he was finally imprisoned, then
given a six months suspended sentence.?
If so, then it is not accurate. He was not
At 22:40 -0400 02/04/17, James R. Frysinger wrote:
Louis's book (in French) will probably be available here in the U.S. in
a month or so. A translation into English may follow later. Louis has
posted links to the exerpts on this list and they are very appealing;
I am putting an English
At 9:56 +0200 2002/04/9, Han Maenen wrote:
I read more about the survey that claimed that 80% (in reality 77%)
wanted to return to the guilder.
It appeared that from the small minority of anti-Europeans in The
Netherlands a very large proportion responded. There was a question about
having a
At 16:21 -0700 2002/04/9, Ma Be wrote:
Hello, folks,
Please allow me to submit a new idea before you. This whole debate
I and Jim have been having on SI frameworking got me thinking.
How about we focus our efforts on getting countries around the world
to yield authority on the issue of
At 13:13 -0400 2002/04/10, JPB Cliveden wrote:
What SHOULD NOT be done, as many of my European colleagues erroneously do,
is to preface the area code with a (0) to indicate that 0 is the long
distance prefix for national calls within that country.
You seem to know a lot about canonical telephone
At 19:03 -0400 2002/04/8, James R. Frysinger wrote:
Those issues, which I think are very low in priority, are:
1- a new name for the kilogram, one not employing a prefix and
2- consistency in use of uppercase or lowercase for prefix symbols.
(I have a current interest in photometric quantities,
At 9:31 +0200 02/04/5, Han Maenen wrote:
There is a backlash against the the euro now, but I think it will be
temporary. A survey claims that 80% of the people in The Netherlands would
like to revert to the guilder.
What ? I thought that the Dutch people had a better appreciation of
European
Title: Re: [USMA:19124] Re: kWh and time
definition
At 17:37 + 02/03/28, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Terry Simpson
Human Factors Consultant
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www.connected-systems.com
Phone: +44 7850 511794
The kilogram is the only base unit that now depends on the
preservation of a
At 10:02 -0700 02/03/28, Jim Elwell wrote:
Today's Investor's Business Daily has a chart at the top center of
the editorial page showing the energy cost of producing ethanol
exceeds the energy in the ethanol.The chart is entirely in metric,
with masses and volumes in kilograms and liters. No
Title: La Grande Métrication
May be you are aware that I had undertaken to write a book (in
French, sorry...) about the development of the metric system in France
and in the world.
The book, with the general public as target audience, has just
gone out of press under the title la grande
At 15:26 -0800 02/03/24, Bill Potts wrote:
Even with the discount, the prices charged by ISO are outrageous.
The download version of ISO-8859-1, for example, is 44 Swiss Francs -- which
is about $26.50 U.S.
The paper version is 56 Swiss Francs ($33.60), plus shipping.
It's only a 10-page
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