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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You could argue and make a big stink with the manager that
since it was priced as 0.25 ยข, you have a legal right to
purchase it at the posted price.
A UK shop is not obliged to sell anything at the posted price. It is all
about contract law: 'offer', 'counter-offer'
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
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Remember the thread about gauge tolerance that devolved into a debate
about how SI (a/k/a the metric system) was evil,
2002 September 2
In studying the Metric Study NBS SP 345-6 Education July 1971 I find
on page 38 a footnote on the mole which quotes the International
Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry as including the photon in the
list of elementary entities which may be used.
Just saw a program on PBS where one of segments talked about the quiet conversion
that Kodak in Rochester, NY has done internally in the last couple of years to SI.
I wonder how many other companies in the States (other than the well-publicized
efforts of the US auto companies, etc.) are
Hi all,
I have seen many products and information from Taiwan using both FFU and SI
only when it benefits them to do so. This is when the product concerned is
being marketed world-wide and the bulk of their sales are in the US. They
would know their sales efforts would be hampered if they used
In the Netherlands we say cent; we also had the cent under the old guilder.
Or we write 0,25 euro or 25 ct or E 0,25.
I think that the Germans also say cent.
Han
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From: kilopascal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday,
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
