See my post [USMA:16446] Re:Depressing...
Briefly, from my understanding, IOC recognizes the International
Association of Athletics Federations as the governing body setting rules for
running events. The IAAF rule book is on line at their website as a PDF
file http://www.iaaf.org/index.asp .
Metric marathons are tougher because they're 12 mm longer! Anyone who runs
a 26 mile 385 yard marathon is a wimp.
SC
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runs Marathons would even care about a 12 mm
difference. All that is important is that the official distance is not xx
miles, xxx yards, but 42.195 km, no more, no less.
John
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Only a guess, but I bet it has a lot to do computerization of the stock
markets. It's much easier to enter a decimal stock price than a fractional
on a keyboard. It's also probably much easier to write database code for
decimal numbers. Now there's an interesting thought. If someone buys a
After some poking around I think I might have this figured out. The
International Olympic Committee recognizes international sport federations
(SF). These SFs set the rules. The SF governing marathons, and other
track, field, and road races is the International Association of Athletics
The distance of the marathon was set at 26 miles for the London Olympics in
1908. This was the distance from the start at Windsor Castle to the finish
in the Olympic stadium. 385 yards was added so the finish line would be in
front of the royals' seating area. This was eventually adopted by
The north pole is in the middle of the Arctic ocean, international waters or
ice in this case. No one has jurisdiction.
The magnetic north pole is in Canadian jurisdiction, but has been known to
move.
I try to use metric in my workshop whenever possible
Hope this answers some of the
What is a rasher?
ScottC
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Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 10:54 PM
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Subject: [USMA:15414] letter in Irish Times
A letter in today's Irish Times about filthy
Times
In the case of bacon, it's simply a slice.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 11:17
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During OLN coverage of la Vuelta a Espana bike race, commentator Paul
Sherwin mentioned the riders were, 6 kilometers from the top of the hill.
That's about four miles in the old money.
Scott C
Their numbers look OK.
Assuming coal is essentially 100% carbon and using C + O2 -- CO2
Meaning 1 mole (an SI unit!) of coal (carbon) comsumes one mole oxygen
giving one mole of carbon dioxide.
So you need to figure out how many moles of carbon are in 9000 tons of coal
and then figure out the
I reiterate the network that is covering Le Tour the most heavily, the
Outdoor Life Network, is reporting about 80-90% of the time in SI, distances
in kilometers or meters and altitudes in meters. The purists would be happy
because they say kee-lo-me-ters, not kil-om-e-ters. One commentator,
UDOT = Unit Decisions Of Troglodytes
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Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 12:16 PM
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Subject: [USMA:12936] Re: UDOT - Metric to English Conversion Memo
[Almost]
This is sort of fun.
Try this website to see the orders of magnitude fly by:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
This may bog down with slower modems.
They notate in SI mostly, but also use light years, microns, angstroms, and
fermis.
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Sent: 2001May08 16:03
Subject: [USMA:12710] From 1 yottameter to 1 femtometer
This is sort of fun.
Try this website to see the orders of magnitude fly by:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java
I assume you are poking at National Geographic for its non-metric use. I
just asked my Indian friend and he says NG is available in India (but
expensive). One of NGs contentions is they are using the units of 'Merica.
What about the rest of the English speaking world? Do they publish a metric
On this subject; anyone with a DVD player may be able to choose subtitles or
foreign language and find out what is written or said. I have a DVD built
into my computer, but I don't have any movies rented right now.
Just an idea,
Scott C
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Actually I think a pound can be mass or weight. If you need to be specific
you should say pound mass (lbm = 0.454 kg) or pound force (lbf = 4.45
N). Now don't confuse pound force with a poundal (=0.138 N). Pound is also
a unit of money in Cyprus, Egypt, Ireland, Lebanon, Sudan, Syria, and
I've often thought the arguments for and against the terms mass and
weight that I've seen bandied about in this forum were an petty exercise
in semantics. However, if NASA is talking about an object in space, this is
no longer the case. NASA and the blindly following news media give the
If you only caught the part you quoted, here is the preceding comments from
my fogged memory. Loosely quoting: "One mission to Mars was lost due to a
metric /english mix-up. It would nice to work only in metric. This current
mission will have english and metric units co-printed in the
The USGS told a Seattle reporter that the quake was "40 km under the
surface" To which the reported replied, "Huh, what did you say?" The USGS
guy repeated about 40km down, and then after some dead air said about 25
miles down. The press is now reporting that it was 30 miles underground.
Dorks.
Correction: I now believe the 40 km quote came from a staff member at the
Alaska Tsunami Center. Don't know if they are affiliated with USGS.
SC
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Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 2:19
Well it might be constant on earth to two sig. figs. On a side topic my
friend spends his life wandering inhospitable places measuring gravity. He
then maps it. From these data and the variations in them he can guess as to
the nature of the subsurface features. The unit he uses is the Gal
To avoid the 0.5 hours spent hunting the internet, bookmark this website:
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html
I have mentioned it before, but it is the most exhaustive I have seen for
units SI and otherwise.
A sverdrup acording to this site is: "a unit of flow sometimes used in
Last time I was on Delta their in-flight magazine explained baggage size
restrictions in a variety of languages: English, German, French, Spanish,
Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese (at least). All were in SI except
the English and Chinese. Go figure? The only thing I could think of was
John,
This website contains a large listing of units of measure and their origins,
as well as the origins of the metric prefixes:
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html
Scott C
Responding to the below message on the metric litserv:
USMA Subscribers,
Please answer directly to John, as
The "length" equals the length of a horse. In horse racing, the length is
actually interpreted as a unit of time equal to 0.2 second: the number of
lengths by which one horse beats another is computed as 5 times the
difference in their running times measured in seconds.
Don't know how many noses
See below. International unit dosing is the only way I see to sell some of
these compound classes without ridiculously expensive and needless separtion
and clean-up procedures.
Scott C.
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I have gotten tired of hearing the British and Americans say that SI is
French, and isn't their system. This morning while looking at torque
wrenches it stuck me as odd that they advertize them as using "English and
metric" units, but the metric units were newton-meters. I thought is was
silly
Some vitamin and vaccine doses are measured by their biological activity,
which, in turn, does not directly relate to the mass of a discrete compound
per unit volume (concentration), so it is impossible to give a exact
concentration for them in any metric units (or FFUs for that matter).
Meant to send this to the list, but it went to James F. only--oops.
SC
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The talbot is a unit of luminous (light) energy
gigameters per copper curium? One would think that people manufacturing
copper and brass products would be more careful how and where they use the
Cu symbol.
Brass = 0.1 Zn/Cu (w/w) give or take.
Scott C.
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What you have in Florida, New Mexico, and few other states is a classic
example of S/N ~ 1. In analytical chemstry we don't usually say we can see
something unless the signal to noise ratio is 2.5 or 3.0. So what you
have in Florida is a bunch of power hungry types trying to interpret the
We often chastise the AP and their stylebook. I'm just wondering if anyone
in this Litserv actually owns a copy, and what does it really say in regards
to metric?
You can buy it from Amazon for sixteen bucks. Saw another version for 11
bucks, but I seem to have lost the ref. for that. This
I received something from Dennis Brownridge as well. I opened it, but not
the attachment because it looked suspicious. It appears to have come
straight from DB not the USMA.
The subject line was WONELI (as in Whoa Nelli?)
The message was "POWERIAOVO"
I'll have my puter nerds look at it.
The puter guys identified it as virus "VBS Plan B"
SC
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Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 3:49 PM
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Subject: [USMA:8903] RE: Dennis's virus
Importance:
Metric prefix for micro, as in microgram, microliter
Alt230 µ µg µL
Interesting I've alway used "Alt0181" for µ.
Both work. Here is "Alt230" = µ.
Both select the same box in the character map too. To a former mac user
this seems odd.
1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton
Kilograms measure mass while newtons measure forces (including weight).
But since it's falling there must be some acceleration (unless it's at
terminal velocity). So there could be a force associated with this--if I
just knew the coversion factor for
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