The BWMA has a new site
http://www.footrule.org
They also have a BWMA postcard about a trial of an 'metric martyr'. It
measures APPROXIMATELY 6 by 4", in other words, this is not excact. It may
well be a metric size after all, 15 by 10 cm!
Han
THE SPACE SHUTTLE AND TWO HORSE'S BUMS
The Standard railway gauge in the USA (and in Britain) is 4ft 8 1/2 ins. An
odd number, one might think. Why not 5ft? Or 7ft (ask I K Brunel)?
The USA takes its railway gauge from England because English emigrants built
the first railroads in that country.
Checking today to see if any letters had been published in response to
mine (there hadn't), I came across a discussion on date formats:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,59-63228,00.html
--
Chris KEENAN
UK Metrication: http://www.metric.org.uk/
UK Correspondent, US Metric Association
2001-01-06
Check out these sites:
http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/isowdcal.html
Notice this remark from the link below:
There is some debate over the propriety of a year 0. The program will
convert Gregorian dates in year 0, because its basis is a proleptic
calendar. It will also convert
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Nat Hager III wrote:
... rotation has a rotational velocity and rotational acceleration, both
of which have the same vector direction.
Sometimes, the same direction, but not always, Nat.
Gene.
I sent a compliant yesterday to Neutrogena about the ad (by Boots The
Chemist) in yesterday's Independent for their shampoo. The label
showed "10.1 fl oz (300 ml)". However, today I visited a branch of
Boots, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the bottle was
labelled '300 ml' - only. Not
You're right Gene. In a precession problem (gyroscope, etc) the directions
do differ slightly.
Nat
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Nat Hager III wrote:
... rotation has a rotational velocity and rotational acceleration, both
of which have the same vector direction.
Sometimes, the same
They absolutely thrive on the obsolete!
Duncan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: U.S.
Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date:
January 5, 2001 23:14Subject: [USMA:10277] Re: News from the
BWMA
In a
message dated 2001-01-05 18:34:59 Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 14:07:25 -0600 (CST)
From: Gene Mechtly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Nat Hager III [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [USMA:10216] RE: The Axis Powers
Nat,
A rotating automobile wheel is a much simpler example.
Car moving forward, the
I can state from experience that a leading decimal point can be harmful
of even fatal in healthcare. But, there is a general decimal illiteracy
in US society, one that affects doctors and nurses. In fact, as I
mentioned on this list in the recent past, a co-worker of mine, in
pharmacy, could not
2001-01-06
Maybe the only way to solve this problem is to revoke the licenses of
pharmacists or pharmacy techs that do not show a working knowledge in SI.
Those who are in training must show both written and oral knowledge of the
workings of SI in order to get a license and those already
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 09:46:29 -0500, "kilopascal"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2001-01-06
From the Daily Mail, 7.12.00
SIGN POINTS THE WAY TO EUROLAND
by Jonathan Irwin
...
We need more replys to their campaign against metric signs like this one
below:
Perhaps some people on this list could
I've just found the following on the Sunderland Echo's Web site (from
Dec 21):
METRIC FIGHT A 'PETTY DISPUTE' 'PETTY DISPUTE'
IS anyone else getting rather sick and tired of hearing about the
so-called "metric martyrs" Steve Thorburn and Neil Herron?
This "metric martyrs" farce is being
Kilopascal wrote in USMA 10288
There is some debate over the propriety of a year 0. The program will
convert Gregorian dates in year 0, because its basis is a proleptic
calendar. It will also convert dates prior to year 0 specified in negative
numbers. So year 0 corresponds to year 1BC in
Interesting! He makes a good point against Thorburn and Herron, saying
that their democratic rights had not been challenged, contrary to their
statements. He even claims to have seen no such dustup over the
conversion of the petrol pumps and therefore implies that their protest
is a tempest in a
Kilopascal wrote in USMA 10285:
The Romans' chariots would have made the first ruts in the roads.Those
chariots were made by or for Imperial Rome with a wheel spacing of 4ft 8
1/2 ins simply because this was the most comfortable width in which to
harness a pair of horses. So the chariot is the
Norman Wer1ling wrote in USMA
If you look on the copyright page in each book, somewhere in the string of
Library of Congress ISBN numbers it refers to cm, but I don't recall how to
identify it. I am certain someone here does.
I have just checked several books. I could find no trace of
Sounds simple enough, but it's not in the cards. We do take a
calculations quiz as part of our initial licensure exam, but there are
no mandatory continuing education requirements for an annual or even
period repeat of a pharmaceutical calculations exam. Some states require
pharmacists to take a
Those of you who have Delphi accounts might be
interested in responding to this:
http://www.delphi.com/foxnewsviews/messages/?msg=19707.47
From: HARRYJOEL
To: DANB83
Did anyone notice that all US industried (car industry
for sure) has already switched to the metric system or
their
2001-01-06
Doesn't this letter make you want to cry?
And why is he using the American date format instead of the British? Why is
metric a threat to British culture and not Americanisation?
Herron's Discount Foods Ltd.,
Units 14-16, Park Lane Market, Sunderland, Tyne Wear, SR1 3NX,
Tel:
Glckliches Neues Jahr!
Happy New Year!
John
Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrtmlich glaubt
frei zu sein.
There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they
are free!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
-Original Message-
From:
Glckliches Neues Jahr!
Happy New Year!
John
Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrtmlich glaubt
frei zu sein.
There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they
are free!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
-Original Message-
From:
Dear John and All,
Thanks for sharing this delightful story. I have been using a similar story
in my metric talks for years, but in my case the point I'm trying to make is
about the nature of measuring conservatism.
This is especially important to groups of scientists when they create new
Dear Han and All,
Some years ago I watched a documentary - from the USA I think - that talked
about snow and how to measure it.
I was struck by the trouble that a scientist had in talking to the media. It
was clear to me that he had made his observations (for years?) using metric
measures but
Glckliches Neues Jahr!
Happy New Year!
John
Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrtmlich glaubt
frei zu sein.
There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they
are free!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
-Original Message-
From:
Informally I have heard that 1 inch of rain corresponds to anywhere
from 4 inches to 10 inches of snow, depending on "how wet" it is. The
most commonly heard number, in my experience, is 6 inches of snow.
It's late at night now and I'm busy these days gearing up for the new
semester. But if I
Some time last year, there has been on this list an exchange about J.
K. Rowling who wrote in one of her successful books "metric is for
Muggles".
The Harry Potter series are now invading France. I wonder if this
phrase has been kept in the French edition and if yes, how it has
been
Pat Naughtin wrote:
Surely megapeople is OK - if inelegant - as long as it is spelled out.
Mpeople is a construction that includes a (correct) SI prefix symbol, but
combines it with the spelled out word 'people'; and to the best of my
knowledge, there is no internationally agreed, and
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