[USMA:24096] RE: kg, Mg, white rain, new web site

Carl Sorenson wrote: As far as I have seen, pretty much everyone uses tons (or tonnes). Not everyone. Megagram usage can be seen by putting the following phrase into google (note capitalised 'OR'): megagram OR megagrams

[USMA:24097] Merry Christmas Santa

Sorry about the FFU the physicist in all of us will appreciate this one Is there a Santa? A little girl named Virginia asked the New York Times if there was a Santa Clause. The reply is now famous. Someone thought it would be fun to ask the scientists at NASA the same

[USMA:24098] Deci, Duo-deci Hex

Hi Marcus The advantage of DECIMAL system is these things. 1. For a very long time (1000's of years), we have been using the words like ten, hundred, thousand, etc in our casual talk. Duodecimal system ignores these numbers and instead goes by multiples of 12. 2. Decimals are

[USMA:24099] Re: Merry Christmas Santa

2002-12-19 John, Please reread the Santa story below and note the changes. In addition to metricating the story, I corrected some other errors. Santa Claus does not have an e at the end of Claus. I changed centrifugal forces to g-forces at the end. You may wish to check the edits for

[USMA:24101] 10 g gold coins

Atlast 10 g gold coins are appearing. Its in China which is the World's 4th largest market. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2589613.stm Hope this will give a boost to the SI in gold. Madan __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful.

[USMA:24100] Fwd: RE: Deci, Duo-deci Hex

Hi Carl Every 1 knows that computers can handle decimal system very easily, but still a lot of things work in binary mode * Usage of kilobinary, megabinary columns, etc * Excel spreadsheet has 256 columns (2 power 8) * Character type columns allow 255 characters in sybase. and so on. A truly

[USMA:24102] Re: Merry Christmas Santa

Ok it has gone out to 30 people let us see how long it takes to get back to one of us via anohter route. At 12:39 PM 19-12-2002, kilopascal wrote: 2002-12-19 John, Please reread the Santa story below and note the changes. In addition to metricating the story, I corrected some other errors.

[USMA:24103] Re: kg, Mg, white rain, new web site

2002-12-19 Our local Newspaper ran a variety of ads for some perfumes and washes. In one ad for a local department store, all kinds of brands are featured. No sizes can be seen on the containers, but the ad indicates sizes such as: 1.7 oz, 2.5 oz, 3.4 oz, 4.2 oz and 6.7 oz. They all appear to

[USMA:24104] Re: Fwd: RE: Deci, Duo-deci Hex

Madan wrote in USMA 24100: I hope some 1 comes up with a computer which uses decimal system instead of binary system. Madan The IBM 650 and the Burroughs Datatronwere pure decimal computers and were not able to do binary (or octal or hexadecimal) arithmetic. Admitedly they

[USMA:24105] Merry Christmas Santa

Is there a Santa? A little girl named Virginia asked the New York Times if there was a Santa Claus. The reply is now famous. Someone thought it would be fun to ask the scientists at NASA the same question. Here is their reply: No known species of reindeer can fly. But there ARE 300 000

[USMA:24106] Re: kg, Mg, white rain, new web site

Carl Sorenson wrote in USMA 24091: In the U.S., Mg would be guaranteed to be confused with mg. Many of you are concerned about confusion from overly precise package labels, but this would be a much more serious confusion. I think think the danger is infinitesimal. 1 000 000 000 mg = 1 Mg

[USMA:24107] Re: more metric candy -- American this time

Jim asked | Looks to me like 150 g might be common for this type of candy packaging | (small bags on display hooks). Is it common in metric countries? Mike replies:- I just looked in our local store's confectionary dept (no I didn't buy any - it's too darn hot for chocs today - damn near 40°)

[USMA:24109] Letter to the Teaching Company

Below is today's correspondence I had with the Teaching Company (http://www.teachco.com). Let's hope they adopt the changes I've requested. (Another drop in the right direction -- to hopelessly mix metaphors!) Ezra CustServ wrote: Dear Erza Steinberg, Thank you for your suggestions! I

[USMA:24110] RE: Road Test

I noticed something interesting about that ad. There is some room for disagreement over 147 kW (space before unit) and 147kW (no space). British and Australian practice differ from American and French (for example) practice in that respect. However, the writer of the ad has disregarded normal

[USMA:24111] Mg, ton

Carl Sorenson wrote in USMA 24091: In the U.S., Mg would be guaranteed to be confused with mg. Many of you are concerned about confusion from overly precise package labels, but this would be a much more serious confusion. Joe wrote: I think think the danger is infinitesimal. 1 000 000 000

[USMA:24112] RE: Mg, ton

Carl Sorenson wrote: I wonder if anyone has ever confused petagram with pentagram... Only a slightly absent-minded Wiccan, I would guess. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]