Of course let's not forget the ever enduring WOMBAT!
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From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of
Paul Trusten
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 4:14 PM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Cc: U.S. Metric Association; mechtly, eugene a
Subject:
Finally some good news. I just reviewed a college math textbook this summer
that was terrible when it came to the use of SI. I wrote a long letter to the
publisher pointing out the mistakes. The trouble is, I have to do this every
few years or so because the books don't seem to get better over
Well, I don't much care what derogatory term is made up, but the old US units
would appear to have an official name. At the request of Congress, the
National Bureau of Standards (precursor to NIST) published a summary of weights
measures used in the United States in the Federal Register,
Seems to me when I heard a fellow from NIST give a lecture the terminology he
used avoided the term customary since the US does not have customs houses
anymore.
Mark
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From: mechtly, eugene a mech...@illinois.edu
Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 1:27 pm
Subject:
We had this same discussion on this listserver in 1997.
At that time, I called it WOMBAT (Way Of Measuring Badly in America Today).
Paul Trusten, Registered Pharmacist
Vice President and Public Relations Director
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
Midland, Texas, USA
+1(432)528-7724
www.metric.org
What is used on usps.com should be easily understood by people outside of this
forum. I am thinking about my wonderful neighbor Anna, who is 70 now and have
never used metric, haven't traveled abroad. I would not want to upset her. I
doubt she will ever use usps website, but the changes will
just added my comment to the article, hopefully it will bend at least one
person's opinion toward metric system
“The USA leads the world in Nobel science awards….more than the rest of ‘the
metric’ world combined. Little Johnny walking a mile to school instead of 1.6
kms matters because of what
I just got a tweet from MarsCuriosity announcing longest drive yet -
110.15 meters.
http://t.co/btiavKAJ0I
David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
More importantly, does he walk one mile to school of 1760 yards to school
(oops, would you guys in the States usually write 5280 feet in this
circumstance, we in the UK we would usually use yards). If he walks three
quarters of a mile (or a mile and a quarter), what is that in yards (or feet)?
We would use feet, not yards. The yard is not a permitted unit on US road
signage and is not in the MUTCD. Not everyone would get the question right,
but I think the most common American response would be to have memorized the
factor 5280 ft/mi and have to work out the yard figure (if they
Martin and John,
Why all this bantering with non-metric units of measurement?
Non-SI units are hopelessly impossible to manipulate into an orderly and
coherent *System* of Units.
We do not seek instruction on the selection and proper usage of non-SI units.
Please take your notions of proper
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