Methinks our friend, Mr. Herron, is a little prone to exaggeration.
But then, I suspect, it comes with the territory.
Wouldn't it be nice if he really could get you some press coverage. g
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t wouldn't be accurate.
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John Scvhweisthal wrote:
Some of you might get a kick out of this. Can you find the
error in one of these below?
1 million microphones: 1 megaphone
This one should be 1 million million (i.e., 1 trillion) microphones.
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units are on the tape or the ruler.
I'd always assumed that most people were aware of that simple approach.
Apparently not, though.
Obviously, the same approach works for any number of strips.
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he size of
point nine.
So, can we agree to say "three point six five" for 3.65? g
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rst time. It certainly sounds as if it's bigger than
"point nine."
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Gregory Peterson
Sent: 2000, October 27 12:02
To: U.S. Metric Assoc
characters.
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.
The same is true in the rest of Europe, although the price is generally a
little less than in Britain.
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of those two may
or may not display correctly on your Mac, Joe.)
IBM must have a penchant for obscurantism, as I haven't found tremma used
other than in their literature (and in some 18th century Italian poetry).
Even the largest of my dictionaries doesn't include it.
Bill Potts, CMS
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Bill Hooper wrote:
A system of prefixes that consist only of powers of 1000
I think you mean "every 3rd power of 10."
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Scott:
It's not really odd. The three-digit version is straight ASCII (ISO 646).
The one with the leading zero conforms to an ANSI standard (I forget which
one). Microsoft allows both.
The ANSI standard is more useful as it covers a wider range of characters.
Bill Potts, CMS
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http
the more common term, "Umlaut."
I found the double-m spelling on a web site dealing with the Mapudungún
language (native Chilean). There, "chuchu tremma" means maternal
grandmother. Not very useful in the context of diacritical marks, though.
g
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be infinitesimal.
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 2000, October 31 02:18
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:8883] German metric bed
I guess you didn't read my follow-on message before sending that reply.
I retracted the original statement, which I attribute to a senior moment.
g
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
See the story at:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/10/31/virus.havock.idg/index.html.
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with people I know well, but I
scrupulously avoid them on the USMA list server.
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Fardig, Paul S.
Sent: November 01, 2000 07:44
To: U.S. Metric
Please remember that, if you are replying to an HTML-formatted message with
email software that supports that format, you will need to use the Format
menu to change your reply to Plain Text.
Your default setting will not apply in such a case.
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software.
Fortuitously, that protects them from viruses. But it also means that, when
someone posts an HTML-format message to the list server, they get messages
that contain more garbage than useful information.
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That's really good news about Tesco.
As I expect to be over there again in four weeks, I'll go in and see for
myself. g
So much for that clown on alt.politics.uk who ends all his messages with "I
shop at Tescos."
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---
You can order the $11.75 version from http://www.ap.org/pages/order.html.
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Scott Clauss
Sent: November 01, 2000 13:42
To: U.S. Metric
The most interesting thing to me is the fact that the Stylebook is not
anti-metric.
Apparently, many anti-metric (or generally innumerate) AP reporters are
ignoring their own style guide.
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as the metric ones. g
The full article is at:
http://itn.co.uk/news/20001105/britain/01storms.shtml?dtn.
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I've received a CD-ROM like that.
Interestingly enough, the track fragmentation resulting from such a shape
has no effect on readability.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf
meter.
However, I've a feeling the words you want us to come up with start with
"four score" rather than "eighty."
"Four score and zettamp ares ago," possibly?
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John Tauxe wrote:
80 ZA-m^2 is eighty zettaamperes per square meter.
Not the way you've written it, and that is what threw me.
The correct expression would be 80 ZA/m^2.
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The diameter of the dish is not precise.
Typically, anything in the 50 cm to 60 cm range is fine. Although the use of
FFU units is dumb for other reasons, it really doesn't make much difference
in this case.
I suggest a Google search with the argument: satellite dish 50 cm.
Bill Potts, CMS
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Yawn
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of kilopascal
Sent: November 17, 2000 19:49
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:9230] RE: (off topic) Re: the election
200
. International keyboard, I can enter many characters not
shown on the keyboard in a direct manner. For example, I get £ with
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-4. (Shift-4 is the $.)
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in standardizing character sets.
Those usages are not unique to Times, but are common to all conventional
fonts (e.g., Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, Courier, Palatino, etc.)
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the outcome for the other two.
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ched
paper tape. Paper tape was referred to as chadded (for the tape where the
hole was punched out fully) or chadless (for the tape where the chad was
deliberately not detached). The latter type offered simpler housekeeping, as
there was no need for a chad bucket under the paper tape punching mecha
SI 10-1997 document,
rather than the BIPM's SI Brochure.
Page 10 of that document says to use cubic meter (and its symbol) and not to
used kiloliters (kL). I assumed, wrongly, that the admonition was of CGPM
origin.
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more. (You have to imagine the word being
said in a very upper crust voice. g)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Carter, Baron
Sent: November 28, 2000 08:40
To: U.S. Metric A
I have both British (EU) and Canadian passports. Neither shows height (or
mass).
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Nikolay O. Malyarov
Sent: November 29, 2000 10:15
like that --
driver licenses, voting equipment, etc. g
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Paul Trusten
Sent: November 30, 2000 11:52
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Cc: U.S
://google.com). The above
URL was from the ninth hit.
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of James R.Frysinger
Sent: December 01, 2000 14:04
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA
uot;good, "fair," etc., regardless of the prevalent units of
measure.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
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Sent: Decembe
of the International System of Units (SI): The
Modern Metric System) specifies the use of a space.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Mark Papsun
Sent: December 18, 2000 08:56
Chris Keenan wrote:
Bill Potts told us that the pinte is nearly a litre,
so is a demi half of that pinte?
To be specific, I think I said that pinte was used, in the Province of
Quebec, for quart (Imperial). For pint (Imperial), they used chopine. That
makes a chopine a demi-pinte. I think
Blitz Lexicon is a very interesting document (which is why I still
have those three pages on the SI Navigator site), but is by no means an
authority certainly not on old French units of measure.
Bill Potts, CMS
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Airlines shows, but I seem to remember it
being the same as TWA.
Bill Potts, CMS
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The following is an inquiry from the SI Navigator site.
If anyone can help Mr. Begley, please reply to him directly, with a copy to
me.
Thanks in anticipation.
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-Original Message-
From: Phil Begley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
Scott Clause wrote:
I only know a few characters so I
wouldn't be able to tell if it was directed at Cantonese or Mandarin
speakers.
To the best of my knowledge, the characters are the same. They just
represent different words (but the same meaning), depending on the language.
Bill Potts
Jim:
It's in Word 5.1 for Macintosh format. I'll convert it to rtf and send it to
you off-list.
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of James R. Frysinger
Sent: December 19
The original word is mètre and métrique is simply the adjectival form.
So, simply stated, the name of the system is derived from the first unit to
be defined.
The definition of métrique (Larousse, 1983) is "relatif au mètre."
Of course, we have Méchain and Delambre to thank for &quo
I think you just answered your own question.
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of James R. Frysinger
Sent: December 20, 2000 10:09
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA
Han:
I think you mean "metro." "Metrum," if it exists, would surely be a Latin
form.
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Han Maenen
Sent: December 20,
for Gillette Foamy).
For that particular product, I prefer mass (although, obviously, expressed in SI
units). For something that comes out as a foam, volume would appear to be somewhat
uninformative.
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From
No. I believe the omicron is pronounced like the o in hot. Therefore, it
wouldn't appear at the end of a word.
Any Greek experts here?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf
Ideally, wind speed should be in m/s. It's pure SI and, moreover, it's
easier to visualize.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Michael G. Koerner
Sent: December 22, 2000 22
and pasting this message into your
word processor (Edit/Select All/Ctrl-c, switch to word processor window,
then Ctrl-v/Edit/Select All, then select the Arial font from the scrollable
font field. That first rectangle will be magically replaced by a Euro
symbol.
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Hardly.
The U.S. automobile industry has been metric for many years.
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of M R
Sent: December 23, 2000 19:26
To: U.S. Metric Association
choice, my grandchildren (aged 9 and 7) watch the Cartoon
Network, the Disney Channel, or Nickelodeon for their entertainment. I see
them moving on to PBS, Discovery, the History Channel, and The Learning
Channel to augment their school experience.
Bill Potts, CMS
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Navigator site. To go straight to that
page, click on http://metric1.org/consolact.htm. The names there already
reflect the 107th Congress.
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eacherous with black ice on many roads after
overnight temperatures plummeted to minus 10C (14F).
I assume they omitted the degree sign because they're unsure of how to make
it display on all email platforms.
Bill Potts, CMS
In sunny San Jose, CA
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Good letter, Chris.
Congratulations.
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: December 30, 2000 02:36
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:10103
Chris Keenan wrote:
Weather forecasts (at least on the BBC) tend to use centimetres now.
I know that. However, my point was that this was a CNN news item, not the
BBC. Therefore, it continues to be encouraging that CNN leaves more and more
metric stuff as reported to them.
Bill Potts, CMS
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M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y. But until CGPM sees the light,
we're stuck with three exceptions.
A friend of mine commented to me, yesterday, that every year is the start of
a new millennium. I think he's right.
Bill Potts, CMS
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Today is the first day of
cation is invisible to him, of course. Most people are
probably unaware of the metrication of Caltrans, NYDOT and other state
highway departments.
Regarding the 8-digit phone numbers, even Denmark adopted them, about ten
years ago. Of course, as it's so small, Denmark doesn't have any area codes.
B
.
Thus, it's incoherent.
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Joe Reid wrote:
What is XML? I tried to get URL:http://www.xml.com/, but my system was
unable to find it.
Extensible Markup Language. Try a Google search on XML and you'll be snowed
under with hits.
Bill Potts, CMS
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Joe Reid wrote:
A vector (or its reciprocal) times a scalar is still a vector. With
torque, the vector is the axis of rotation.
As a vector requires both direction and magnitude, how can an axis be a
vector?
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Gene Mechtly wrote, in response to Joe Reid:
Where do you find a definition for the reciprocal of a vector?
Maybe Joe's trying to put one over on us. g
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missing something? Am I going dotty or have I got my
vectors crossed? Should I just curl up and div?
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of James R. Frysinger
Sent: January 03
a single digit year, so that this will
distract people from writing 2 digit year
If you haven't already done so, why don't you visit
http://metric1.org/dateandtime.htm?
Bill Potts, CMS
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I don't know the answer to that.
However, I do know that the INS and U.S. Customs use 2-digit dd-mm-yy
format.
I assume that is a simple recognition of the fact that nobody else uses the
mm-dd-yy format.
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I wrote:
Incidentally, she's getting straight A's, with a Grade Point
Average of 40.
Oops! That should be 4.0.
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objection isn't as strenuous.
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386, with Windows 95) only ever had the 90 mm
format.
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of M R
Sent: January 09, 2001 13:45
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:1037
it arrives. And when I can make the
change, then the
floppy icon in my computer will be renamed '90 mm disk', that's
for sure.
In Windows 98, the drive description is hard coded. In Me, it's in the
Registry.
Bill Potts, CMS
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, you just
have to right click on the default name for the A drive, in Windows
Explorer, and choose Rename from the menu.
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Louis Jourdan wrote:
"Quatre-vingt-dix millimtres". Lengthy, even longer than "trois
pouces et demi". But I do prefer it !
That certainly gives you an incentive to express it as neuf centimtres. g
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Michael:
As you've read it, presumably you have downloaded it and possibly still have
it. Why don't you copy and paste those two pages into a message and let us
have the information that way?
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-Original Message-
From
Norm:
The first is real, but not new (about a year or so old).
The second is bogus. See http://www.virus.com/hoax/?hoax=179..
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Norman
ntion it, but I know you, yourself, are a stickler for correct
forms.
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.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Gene Mechtly
Sent: January 10, 2001 20:15
To: U.S. Metric Associa
The person who wrote the introduction is not really up on SI, with his/her
reference to ergs.
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Nat Hager III
Sent: January 11, 2001 08:52
I agree with you on my wrong use of the symbol for megajoule.
We'll have to agree to differ on the dollar sign.
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Gene Mechtly
Sent
comes from
Samantha C. and not from Melanie Sullivan, the owner of the email account.
I suggest that you copy the list on any replies you send her.
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-Original Message-
From: melanie sullivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent
address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), which is, presumably, in the
Address Book of C Kovacs' email software. I'm copying C Kovacs on the
message to make sure he/she is aware of it.
Make sure your own virus protection software checks incoming email
messages!!
Bill Potts, CMS
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Chris Kovacs has apparently detected the inadvertent sending of the Anna
virus and has provided the following link for information on it:
http://www.cnet.com/software/0-3746.html?tag=st.cn.1.tlpg.3746
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-Original Message
The following link provides still more information:
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2684605,00.html
Incidentally, it was McAfee Virus Scan 5.11 that caught it on my system.
Bill Potts, CMS
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Gene Mechtly wrote:
What is the name for a circle over a vowel if not "umlaut"?
Ring.
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Norman:
I'm not sure that the AP Style Book is at fault. From earlier postings, I
seem to remember that it presents SI correctly and doesn't suggest
conversion.
Now, AP practice is another thing.
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-Original Message-
From
Gene Mechtly wrote:
Jeb Bush might be able to persuade President Bush (the younger)
to see that his father's Executive Order is enforced, or to issue his own
presidential order which could be even more favorable for metrication.
I understand that Dubya already knows what a gram is.
Bill
dimension,
rather than on both.
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Adrian Jadic
Sent: February 26, 2001 07:51
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:11300] Metric issue wi
Thanks, Mike. It's definitely worthwhile.
I have the entire 1988 printed set ("Blue Books") of the V and X series
Recommendations, plus the Terms and Definitions document. It's nice to know
I can get three freebies if and when I need access to some of the newer
stuff.
Bill Potts, CM
Gene Mechtly wrote:
And thanks, Joe, for your "here here" ...
Which should, of course, have been "hear hear."
I'm amazed at how many well-educated people get that one wrong. (And you and
Joe are definitely well-educated.)
("Here here" is, of course, what you s
Gene:
It was Joe's error, which you reproduced.
I refrained from commenting until I saw it being propagated. g
George Bernard Shaw would probably have excused both of you. He hated the
inconsistencies of English spelling.
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In my first reply, I should have mentioned that the 1998 Federal Register
entry on SI is, indeed, available at http://metric1.org/dldocs.htm. It
actually resides on the NIST Physics site, but that's transparent to the SI
Navigator user.
Bill Potts, CMS
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.
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John:
Someone needs to tell Luke that a bar is not SI (in addition to correcting
his definition of it).
Also, his spelling of Fahrenheit needs a little work. g
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL
us reply was, "Teeth will be provided!"
(Try to imagine Paisley's words being spoken with his very strong Ulster
accent.)
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTE
are ifp, rather than metric, I have no problem with it.
I'm a purist, but not a zealot.
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Robert Bushnell wrote:
We can say
"Let us go to Bill Potts' house and argue the pronunciation of giga."
or we can say
"Let us go to Bill Potts's house and argue the pronunciation of giga."
PS I go for the soft g (as in giant) for the first g in giga.
Joe Reid wrote:
Hence I vote for giga with hard g's.
G-g-g-good for you, Joe. g
So do I (and for the same etymologically-sound reason).
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Jason Wentworth wrote:
It sounds like Paisley fancies himself as another Rev. Jonathan
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Edwards!
From a sermon, on 1741-07-08, in Enfield, MA.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
,
with a link to the item on the Downloadable Documents page.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
note that, if you aren't sure under what category you might find
something on SI Navigator, you can just go to the "Search Entire Site"
section (from the main menu).
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
, drinks trolley (Am. beverage cart), etc.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
If Tom is reading this, he needs to know that none of his existing links is
clickable. You have to copy and paste them into your browser's address
field. People won't generally use such links.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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