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From: BWMA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 11:53 AM
Subject: Weights and Measures
Han,
You asked some questions recently regarding BWMA and weights measures.
Here
are some answers.
Q: What is the BWMA's position
Apologies to anyone who may have already seen this, but I sent it yesterday
and it appears to have vanished into thin air, so here it is again!!!
kilopascal wrote:
1.) They converted the metres to yards as 1:1 instead of 1:0.9144. But,
this is common practice anyway. You now have two
The BWMA wrote:
Q: What is the BWMA's position on Britain having signed the Metric
Convention
in 1884 and being a member state of the International Bureau of Weights
and
Measures under this convention?
A: None. We have no objection to people using metric units.
Yes they do!! Why are they
2001-09-01
Han,
Well, it seems they answered you on the most recent questions. Maybe, you
can repose the questions we asked a few months back and never got answered.
Another thing to ask is if they will accept changing the value of imperial
units to match those of metric. If they try to fall
2001-09-01
The yard equal to the metre is not an official practice, but one commonly
used in the media. Whenever you read or hear about something in the news in
yards, especially if it involves something foreign, it is usually a 1:1
conversion of metres. What they do is just change the name
2001-09-01
I don't see how it would be disastrous. A person who uses imperial would
ask for a pound and get 500 g. I doubt they would notice the difference.
The scales, however would be in kilograms and the merchant would weighs out
500 g when a pound is asked for instead of fiddling with 454
From: Joseph B. Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Kilopascal wrote in USMA 15094:
Another thing to ask is if they will accept changing the value of
imperial
units to match those of metric. If they try to fall back on heritage,
ask
them what heritage?, as the values of imperial units have changed
When I was in Calgary a few moths ago, the deli counter was all in 100 g
(hectogram) units at the stores I visited. Nothing was priced per pound.
The only thing I saw priced per pound, were produce sold in bulk. Like
bunches of carrots or heads of lettuce.
Sobey's, a supermarket chain
