In a message dated 2002-03-19 00:49:58 Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is totally ridiculous.
The tone of such messages is not acceptable on this list. If you want to go on that way you have better to quit the list. For sure your messages do not not contribute at all to
It may have been Canadian beer, but where did you get it?
Beer that is marketed and sold in Canada for the Canadian
market is labelled in millilitres.
If it only contains ifp, then it was probably made for the US
market, even if it was manufactured in Canada.
Stephen Gallagher
- Original
...through the addition of U.S. metric content based on General
Services
Administration (GSA) guidelines for professional rounding of unit
measurements
How does 'US metric' differ from the plain old metric that everybody
else uses?
On the other hand, perhaps it might be a good thing to
I also thought of 'mil' as used in NATO for angles. There are 64000
in a
circle.
I think there are only 6400 military mils in a circle. In artillery,
knowing the range to a target in kilometres and the error in metres
from
where the shells are landing to the target.
You are almost
mil a unit of angle measure, used in the military for artillery settings.
During World War II the U.S. Army often used a mil equal to 1/1000 of a
right angle, 0.1 grad, 0.09°, or 5.4 arcminutes (often written 5.4 moa).
More recently, various NATO armies have used a mil equal to 1/1600 right
Louis JOURDAN wrote:
At 20:13 +1100 02/03/18, Pat Naughtin wrote:
To be metric literate and to use any modern computer system is
bordering on
nightmare status. I feel that I have to fight the computer for every
metric
thing that I do.
But why do you persist in using purely
My reason for posting is that understand Autodesk (AutoCad) is pretty much a
de-facto standard in the engineering and design industry, and if it's
becoming more metric-friendly I would assume it's in response to customer
demand.
That would seem like a good sign.
Nat
...through the addition
At 06:47 PM 3 March 2002 -0500, kilopascal wrote:
I mentioned on numerous occasions what I do. If you weren't paying
attention, that is your tuff luck!
Now go drink your beer
I'm afraid it is not my tuff luck, but rather it is yours. Your avoiding
the question serves only to further undermine
-Original Message-
From: Louis JOURDAN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: March 19, 2002 01:00
Subject: [USMA:18885] Re: My stand for the Q Was:Re: Re: Short unit names
At 9:28 +0100 02/03/18, Han Maenen wrote:
Alas, for the medical sector the mmHg
At 06:47 AM 3 March 2002 -0500, Stephen C. Gallagher wrote:
It may have been Canadian beer, but where did you get it?
Beer that is marketed and sold in Canada for the Canadian
market is labelled in millilitres.
If it only contains ifp, then it was probably made for the US
market, even if it was
I don't have too much of a problem. My standard Windows installation
procedure, in addition to deleting desktop clutter and the MSN icon, is to
go into Control-Panel|Regional-Options, and check Numbers|Metric,
Time|24h, and Date|-MM-dd. Everything except a few rogue programs
then defaults to
Pat Naughtin wrote
I have never heard of an abbreviation for
centimetres.
Just like km is for kilometer, cm is for centimeter.
I believe abbreviations are used worldwide. Thats 1
of the advantages of SI.
Madan
Dear Jim and All,
Building workers in Australia refer to 'mils' for
millimetres
Madan:
Although km and cm may be called abbreviations from a purely linguistic
point of view, in SI they are called symbols (with these two being prefixed
symbols).
In any case, though, the purpose of the short unit names under discussion is
to make their pronunciation shorter (as in liter
Thanks, Jim. It's a pity that some of your colleagues on the list seemed to develop a
major sense of humour failure.
Admittedly, it was rather juvenile and went on for far longer than it should have, but
sometimes when the opportunity presents itself, I find it difficult to resist.
Madan asked in USMA 18900;
Anyone has an idea of the origins of the words like
mega, giga, micro, nano, etc.
I dont think the Romans used these terms in their
days.
Quite right, the Romans certainly did not use these terms.
Deci, centi, milli, micro nano, and pico come from Latin. Femto
Jim Elwell remarked in USMA 18897 regarding Molson's Canadian beer:
It was purchased in Salt Lake City. No doubt it was made for the US market:
it has 3.2 w/w on the bottom, indicating 3.2% alcohol by weight, which is
the maximum alcohol content that can be sold in grocery stores in Utah.
It
Below is the response I received when I emailed "Project Bread" who has a "Walk for Hunger" every year in Boston. I asked why couldn't they switch to kilometres and do a 30 km walk instead of a 20 mi walk, and they would get more money for less distance. The URL is www.projectbread.org in case
I suspect there's a good reason to leave out your height (while still
retaining it in the passport database).
It makes it harder for people to use stolen passports. They can alter their
appearance (to some extent), but then be caught on the basis of a
discrepancy in height.
Bill Potts, CMS
To be more specific on femto and atto, the Danish words from which they are
derived are femten (fifteen) and atten (eighteen).
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Joseph B. Reid
At 10:08 -0500 02/03/19, Duncan Bath wrote:
May be our body is not SI designed ?
Well, it does have 10 fingers!
Duncan
Good point. Shame to me !
Louis
In short, EU = the political aspects, EC the technical ones.
BTW, our passports bear the mention European Community.
I renewed my passport a couple of weeks ago. The old one said
European Community, whereas the new one says European Union.
The old one also had my height as 174 cm, the new one
Dear Jim,
I would add:
micron - micrometre
kilo - kilogram
kilo - kilometre
meg megalitre
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
on 2002/03/19 02.19, Jim Elwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So far I know of:
klickkilometer (or km/h?)
kaykilometer
milmillimeter
pufpicofarad (pF)
amp
Dear Terry and All,
on 2002/03/19 05.09, Terry Simpson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This thought from my 'Rules of Thumb' might be useful.
Reading: Reading is easy for most people if the letters are 5
millimetres
high at a distance of 500 millimetres; from this we get a ratio of
1:100,
Dear Han,
on 2002/03/19 07.43, Han Maenen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Copied from the USMA site
Metric Typographic Units
snip
*Absolutely everything is measured and specified in millimeters.*
No more points, picas, ciceros, inches, etc. and all their awful conversion
factors.
Dear Madan and All
on 2002/03/20 03.25, M R at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone has an idea of the origins of the words like
mega, giga, micro, nano, etc.
This is my list.
Origins of the prefix names
PrefixSymbolOrigin of prefix
yottaYyotta is derived from the Greek word
Dear Louis,
Doctors and other medical workers in Australia (sadly) use millimetres of
mercury for blood pressure. Your typical figure of 13 - 8 would be written
as 130/80 and read as 130 over 80.
One problem with this use of a unit as a jargon is that the pressures cannot
be easily compared
Dear Louis,
Thanks for your suggestion. I would really like to do as you suggest.
Unfortunately I am tied in to the Microsoft circuit because of the people
with whom I share documents.
Thanks anyway.
Pat Naughtin
Geelong, Australia
on 2002/03/19 02.14, Louis JOURDAN at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pat:
You're using typographical quotes again -- and they're coming through as OE
diphthong for the opening quote and 1 prime for the closing quote.
Are you composing in Word? If so, you need to turn off the option to
automatically convert symmetrical quotes to typographical quotes.
Bill Potts,
Pat Naughtin wrote:
One problem with this use of a unit as a jargon is that the pressures cannot
be easily compared with other pressure measures; for example is the pressure
in your car tyres higher or lower than your blood pressure.
Here's a poser for you. Is your blood pressure
In a message dated 2002-03-19 15:01:10 Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Deci, centi, milli, micro nano, and pico come from Latin. Femto and atto
come from Danish. Deka, hecto, kilo, mega, giga, tera, and exa come from
Greek. I have not been able to find the etymology of yotta,
2002-03-19
Just a guess, but I would say it is greater. Even though atmospheric
pressure is 760 mmHg, the 130/80 mmHg is relative to the 760 mm. It is
130/80 greater that 760 mm. It is what is known as gage pressure, not
absolute. If it were an absolute pressure, it would be 890/840 mmHg.
At 23:26 -0500 02/03/19, kilopascal wrote:
2002-03-19
Just a guess, but I would say it is greater. Even though atmospheric
pressure is 760 mmHg, the 130/80 mmHg is relative to the 760 mm. It is
130/80 greater that 760 mm. It is what is known as gage pressure, not
absolute. If it were an
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