Brij:
Your somewhat cryptic statement doesn't make it clear whether you're
agreeing with me or disagreeing with me.
In any case, in your own example, 00 through 06 would be D01 through D07,
not D01 through D06.
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I thought the alleged resurrection was on a Monday -- now celebrated as
Easter Monday.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-usma;ColoState.EDU]On
Behalf Of Joseph B. Reid
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002
Terry Simpson wrote: Microsoft Outlook has a calendar option 'First day of
week'. The user
can choose any day but the default is Monday.
That may be true of the U.K. edition of Outlook 2000. The U.S. edition
defaults to Sunday.
Bill Potts, CMS
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the week with Sunday. The difference could be that appointment books
are typically used for the work week, which does start on a Monday, as
opposed to the calendar week. That a calendar should show the calendar week
seems quite reasonable. g
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Ezra Steinberg wrote: ... folks like me with a 56kps dialup line ...
Oh the shame of it Ezra, referring to 56 kbit/s as 56kps.
Go and stand in the corner. g
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import in setting standards.
Thus, I recommend that we leave religion out of this, in favor of scientific
pragmatism.
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Sent
Oops, I should have said Torah/Old Testament AND New Testament, given that
Marcus made reference to the latter.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-usma;colostate.edu]On
Behalf Of Bill Potts
Sent: Sunday
. Very clever, in my opinion. It
certainly got my attention the first time I drove along that road.
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U.S. corruption of yes sir, typically used by announcers
of musical numbers.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-usma;colostate.edu]On
Behalf Of Mike Joy
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 16:55
To: U.S
channels myself.
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For goodness sake, John, I wasn't recommending watching it. I just wanted to
acknowledge their use of SI.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-usma;colostate.edu]On
Behalf Of kilopascal
Sent: Sunday
understand any measurement system.
My email, which was very polite, elicited no response whatsoever.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-usma;colostate.edu]On
Behalf Of John Nichols
Sent: Sunday, November 10
unit pricing anyway (which may have been required by law), why they were
going to the extra trouble of converting something that is wholly metric to
obsolete units.
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John:
You seem to use a ton of verbiage to state the bloody obvious.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-usma;colostate.edu]On
Behalf Of kilopascal
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 12:04
To: U.S. Metric
Brian:
If you still have the last week of messages in your Inbox, you'll find that
some did and they have given us quite good reports.
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Behalf
, if anyone is
interested. If there is no interest, I won't clutter up your mailboxes.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-usma;colostate.edu]On
Behalf Of John Nichols
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:19
. Given that
those discussions had nothing to do with SI (Don's primary stated objection)
and were, moreover, not very entertaining, I'd say that I agree with Don.
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be a good start.
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can do better, but the gist is obvious.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-usma;colostate.edu]On Behalf Of
kilopascal
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 20:57
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:23282
Interestingly, that's almost exactly 70 mm (holding, of course, a 50 mm
stack).
I suspect the international standard is 80 mm, though. Standard 4-ring
binders for ISO A4 paper use 80 mm spacing. That standard isn't universal,
though. Sweden uses a different standard, for example.
Bill Potts, CMS
Canada between 1959 and 1962,
but I believe it was something like 5.5 or 6.
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available all over Northern California (including the whole
San Francisco Bay Area and the Sacramento area). I assume it's available
elsewhere, too.
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Thank you for that vote of confidence, Han.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-usma;colostate.edu]On
Behalf Of Han Maenen
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 22:42
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject
. Then press Enter.
If you highlight the second line and press Ctrl-c before clicking on the
underlined portion, you'll be able to do the paste half of the operation
without going back to the message window to do the copy half.
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, I'm trying to decide whether or not that would be an improvement
over L/100 km. I think my preference, though, would be for L/Mm.)
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and governments agreed to use that
value and, instead of specifying the units, simply expressed it as a
consumption factor, it might get accepted. Engineers and other well-informed
people (like us) would know what the unit of measure was; others might not
even care.
Bill Potts, CMS
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http
I don't think even the space shuttle uses fuel at that rate. 98 cubic meters
per kilometer? Whew!
I guess you mean 98 cm^3/km.
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Looks better than before, with some exceptions and some errors, both of
which I've covered in a private email to you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
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Sent: Sunday
, by the way, by the If you want us to give up ... opening to
your message. Are you not already pro-metric?
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Move of the world? Betcha can't!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of kilopascal
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 12:20
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:23434] Re: fuel
your proselytization (which is what the paragraphs below
amount to) arrogant, annoying and, more to the point, totally irrelevant to
the topic of SI.
Bill Potts, CMS
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Han:
Let me be the first to congratulate you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Han Maenen
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 13:58
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA
and behold, the unit chosen for the
unit pricing for liquor was ... take a deep breath ... the liter. Rational
thinking at last.
We normally shop at Raley's, so I'm going to check their unit pricing next
time I'm there.
Bill Potts, CMS
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Well, I was the first to publicly congratulate him on this list.
What you and Han do in private is your business, of course.
So there. =[:o) (Hee, hee.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL
, Jim
Elwell, Joe Reid, or any others on this list.
What I have never done is claim to disagree with you when I do, in fact,
agree with you. If that is your claim, then I'm at a loss to understand it.
I stand by my request to stick to SI.
Bill Potts, CMS
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John Schweisthal wrote: Any base that is a multiple of two will work, ...
Not quite. Any base that is a power of 2 will work.
Remember 10 and 12 are both multiples of 2.
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seem to be full of articles by writers who
probably couldn't get employment anywhere else. And, of course, the
magazines are produced, under contract, by a publishing company, not by the
airline itself.
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From
When I was living in Düsseldorf in 1988, I used to buy Mövenpick ice cream
and sorbet at the supermarket. As far as I can remember, it was sold by the
liter.
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Just as a clarification, I should have said that it was sold in 1 L
containers. It was not, of course, measured to order.
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Sent
, the only state in which a river actually caught fire.
(Not relevant, but I thought I'd mention it.)
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If you click on the option to display the results including those omitted
initially, it also displays a link to the SI Navigator site.
The link is http://metric1.org/sibooks.htm.
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. There's also the
question of whether anyone would want to make a lifelong commitment to being
absent from Mother Earth.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Han Maenen
Sent: Saturday
for L.
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Mike Joy wrote:
Of course it will work. Santa Claus comes from Finland, doesn't he?
I thought he came from the North Pole.
North Pole is, of course, a suburb of Fairbanks, Alaska.
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to a special seasonally-staffed office in
Ottawa or somewhere.
I believe the real magnetic north is in Canada, though. Brrr!
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a foolish consistency (which, as
Ralph Waldo Emerson told us, is the hobgoblin of small
minds).
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CMSRoseville, CAhttp://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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David Jones wrote:
some 25-30 miles to the west of it at Paris - a lot.
Oops. I guess you meant to say some 40 to 50 kilometers ...
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. However, if it were
expressed as a non-fraction, it would be 3.335 640 95 ns, not 77.162 709 5
ps.
And what's a pico-metric second? The term is picosecond (ps).
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David Jones wrote:
*blush* I typed the numbers right though - I meant 25-30 km.
Oh, all right. In that case, you need only stand in the corner for five
minutes. g
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Oops.
I should not have put a decimal point in the definition of the meter. It
should be the distance traveled by light in 1/299 792 458 s. I'm letting
myself be influenced by Brij's slow light.
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From
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Metric US
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 15:09
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:23762] Kelvin
Since the Kelvin is not designated
of course have increased the humor
content a little.
I'll do that next time. However, the punishment you prescribe is unduly
harsh, as the minute is approved for use with SI units. Maybe you should
stand in the corner for 300 s for even mentioning a yardstick.
Bill Potts, CMS
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http
I, for my part, am surprised you didn't see my own self-correction in USMA
23752.
However, thank you for being surprised and saying of course he meant ...
g
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Joe Reid wrote:
What does it matter if it was miles or kilometres?
In the grand scheme of things, it matters little.
However, on this list (USMA, remember), we do try to avoid expressing
measurements (even approximations) in other than SI, don't we?
Bill Potts, CMS
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.
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the competition's 1 ton
trucks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Mike Joy
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 01:25
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:23830] 1 tonne pickup
word,
after all. Remember that we want to get over the strange idea that SI is,
somehow, a system being imposed by the French.
However, whether tonne or metric ton prevails, the term will eventually
revert to ton (meaning, by then, 1000 kg).
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to base 12 as decimal.
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the decimal system
duooctal.
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John Schweisthal wrote:
... there was an excessive amount of metric used.
Surely, for those of us on this list, no amount of metric can be excessive.
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You might want to note that, as it is not a unit (being, rather, a qualifier
of the unit, degree), Celsius retains its status as a proper name (of Anders
Celsius) and is always capitalized.
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?
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use the term.
Regarding the gadget, it's a matter of emphasis. The gadget, micrometer, has
the emphasis on the second syllable, whereas the unit, micrometer (or
micrometre), has the emphasis on the first and third syllables.
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and a unit.
I think adding a prefix to micron would have been even more problematic than
with liter (with milliliter [mL] meaning the same as cubic centimeter
[cm3]). Imagine millimicrons (mµ) competing with nanometers (nm) and
micromicrons (µµ) competing with picometers (pm).
Bill Potts, CMS
like tire pressure, meteorologists seem to be split
between kilopascals and hectopascals -- with the latter having the
convenience of having the same value as the more traditional millibar.
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Please, it's degrees Celsius, not degrees celsius.
The distinction is important, because Celsius is used, in that context, as a
qualifying name, not as a unit.
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And there was I thinking you had a rare book written nine years before the
Battle of Hastings. =[ :o)
By the way, I find millionth micron somewhat amusing. The writer
apparently wanted to avoid the repetitive micromicron.
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From: G. Stanley Doore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 12:48
To: Bill Potts
Subject: Re: [USMA:23959] RE: Reply from the Washington Post
Sorry. I thought I did. Please forward this to the USMA List. I guess I
don't have access
I certainly hope your message was intended to be tongue in cheek.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
kilopascal
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 09:49
To: U.S. Metric
exist with the gram galileo relationship.
Incidentally, I propose Gi, rather than Go, for galileo, because Galileo's
full name was Galileo Galilei. However, I could live with either one.
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the only reason [because of computer address structures] for having it in
the first place.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
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Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 15:34
plywood sheets that
are 1.2 m wide
does anybody know.
If, by we, you mean the US, plywood here is 8 feet by 4 feet (2438 mm x
1219 mm).
Australian plywood is 2400 mm by 1200 mm (expressed in the building trade in
mm, rather than in cm or m).
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which
was intended by the context. The large C Calorie (Cal, which equals 1000
small c calories) was used only in the field of nutrition and the small c
calorie (cal) was never used in that field.
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sheets was using a unit created from his/her faulty memory of what an
engineer had provided.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 15:00
composing in your email composition window, using HTML
formatting (which is not just useful, but essential, in messages like this
one).
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, rather than the hodgepodge he/she did choose.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Mike Joy
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 22:11
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA
Carl Sorenson wrote:
I wonder if anyone has ever confused petagram with pentagram...
Only a slightly absent-minded Wiccan, I would guess.
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time to stay focused.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Matthew Zotter
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 11:09
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:24125] k$5
2002 DEC 20
, the existence of the process of evolution has not.
Given the extent to which this is off-topic for this list, I'll stop now.
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and 1000 times,
we still have da, h and k, although many have called for these to be
replaced by D, H and K for the sake of consistency.
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their ways, I
would be opposed to USMA getting involved with them.
What the USMA actually does, of course, is up to the USMA. I'm just one of
many members.
The Girl Scouts, on the other hand, do not practice discrimination. I would
encourage USMA to pursue your idea in their case.
Bill Potts, CMS
The discussion was moved off-list two days ago, thanks to the initiative of
Carl Sorenson.
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Behalf Of Howard Ressel
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 07:04
The medical firm is HCA -- an enormous company, started by Bill Frist's
father and brother. HCA's billing frauds have cost them hundreds of
megabucks in fines.
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In effect, we say centidollars. It's just that we shorten it to cents
(without exception).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Terry Simpson
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:52
I see they're not very good about using the correct symbols.
For example, they have capitalized metre (as Metre) and kg (as Kg). They
also have the abbreviation MTRS, rather than the symbol m, and sqmm, rather
than mm².
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John:
Go to http://www.mcps.k12.md.us and do a site search with metric as the
keyword. You'll get quite a few references.
The only unfortunate thing is their use of the awful metrics in some
contexts.
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I notice that the metric pages on their web site give special thanks to you.
Congratulations.
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Sent: Monday, December 30
If the time unit were s, instead of h, you could express it as W/kg.
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Behalf Of Pat Naughtin
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 17:31
To: U.S. Metric
John:
I was with you all the way until the sentence starting with The aliens ...
At that point, you and I parted company -- in a big way.
'Nuff said.
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are Canon Inc., Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi, Ltd.,
Phoenix Technologies K.K., Pioneer Corporation, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.,
Sharp Corporation, and Victor Company of Japan. See
http://www.ivdr.org/consortium/consortium_e.html.
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Read USMA:24329, below, which was written by John Schweisthal (kilopascal).
Then ask him -- preferably off list.
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Sent
to kill animals for meat??
Also, didn't one of those same apes toss one of these bones high
into the air only for it to turn into a spaceship???
Or am I thinking of something else??
Yup. 2001 -- A Space Odyssey
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but the
manufacturer (although the platters may conceivably be supplied by another
company specializing in disk media).
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kilopascal
Sent: Friday
. However, based on his talk, it would seem to
make very interesting reading.
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have put a fresh
tape in -- but I didn't.)
So, please, no requests for copies of my non-existent tape.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
Apparently they use metric for commercial buildings, but homebuilders still
use Imperial units.
Joe Reid can possibly confirm this.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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Carl Sorenson wrote:I don't really have
sources for this, but this is what I assume.Centigradewas
defined in terms of the freezing and boiling points of water.
Celsiusis (at least currently) defined in terms of Kelvin (which uses
the triplepoint). Thus, Celsius is tied to SI and centigrade
conceivable that, at some time in the future, the definition of the
kelvin could also change (again, obviously, without changing the actual
size).
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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to argue. Your energy is
best saved for those who can be influenced, because they are willing to
weigh the benefits.
'Nuff said. I don't want to pontificate (at least not excessively).
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Brij Bhushan Vij
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 14:07
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:24446] Renaming Metric Ton
It may
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