aw than with science.
Jim
Scott Clauss wrote:
Never seen such a label, but I don't drink much soda.
But isn't 1 Cal = 4+ kJ?
Scott C
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not shown, but this will happen
eventually.
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se of five or more average Americans. Yet, quiet and
unimposing as he was, you would never know it from outward appearances.
Max worked closely with people on Capitol Hill and got good things to
happen. Rest in peace, Max.
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Japan surely does not use the same lumber dimensions used in the U.S.
and much of Canada (such as "2 by 4s"). That would be in violation of
Japan Measurement Law. Indeed, the Government Of Japan (GOJ) position
statement posted at the last Harmonization Conference last fall calls
for the U.S. to
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oguhout SI? It is not. It stops with 10 and 100 (and
one-tenth and one-hundredth.) From 1000 on up (and down) all steps between
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rdles used in athletics should be
changed too; they
are still a yard high, expressed as 91.4 cm. Make them 90 cm exactly!
Marcus
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in size, even though the pressure rating was the
same. The gauge in fact was quite similar to the one described above
except that inside the dial it read "KpaX100" -- note the uppercase K
and lowercase p.
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Again, my compliments on your fine product and especially on providing
a metric pressure scale. I hope my comments above prove useful to you.
If you have any questions about them, please feel free to call me or
write to me, as provided for below.
regards,
James R. Frysinger
Certified
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rmal units ?
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N/m^2 = 98 kPa.
I think the Japanese are fond of kgf. I see it used a lot for Japanese
products in their pressure and torque recommendations.
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Subject: [USMA:9225] Metric system is VERY old
I have found conclusive evidence that the metric system is very old
indeed. See here the plan of Ave
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total
votes between candidates is the signal we are trying to see. If you can't
reliably see the signal for the noise, call it a tie.
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The abbreviations on this page were terrible! I couldn't help myself but
had to comment -- politely, of course.
Jim
"James R. Frysinger" wrote:
Webmaster, Revere Copper Products, Inc.
Dear Patrick,
I happened upon your specification sheets, such as
http://www.rever
, which should be avoided at all cost indeed.
He could have solved his problem simply by getting and using metric recipes. On
the Internet anybody can find lots ad lots of them!
Han
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what the alternative was.
Since a driver's license is essential for me, I had to provide that data
in feet in pounds. Alas!
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n FFU for that matter? I don't think the concept applies.
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of one square metre. American notepaper is defined as
having a size of 8.5 by 11 inches. which translates into 215.9 by 279.4
millimetres.
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he metric system."
Do you think they would buy it? I would use the "dealing" in this case.
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]he will do the country will, I believe, be *substantial*."
PGP: 0x62D6B223 -- J. Michael Straczynski, on r.a.s.t.b5.moderated
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ood enough for me. He also
invited any other comments that I may have on the site.
He told me that they receive 460'000 hits per month to their site, mostly from
American school children. Since this site is primarily metric I was pleased to hear
this statistic.
greg
Saskatoon SK Canada
.
Norm
Especially since the article I read on this in The Washington Post indicated
that an inordinately large amount of time was spent teaching US students --
fractions.
Carleton
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the nature
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eighth-grade students. Fifty percent of topics in chemistry were
intended to be covered.
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be printed on one page.
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nice day!
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-- especially the coefficient. Don't take this
one sample as a conversion method; but it probably shows the form of the
relationship.
Jim
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Adrian,
Wow. What a weird one. I've found a little information for you.
One company makes a viscometer that th
of information or
understanding of the chemistry of the material is gained by expressing it in
these units?
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). I would put it in the same "bloatware" category as
MS Office. In two days, it crashed on me three times.
Jim
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ze and you need to install the 'Wine' Windows emulator
package to run it.
"James R. Frysinger" wrote:
Overall, I am not terribly impressed with this product. It needed two
patches to allow it to be installed on the SuSE linux image (SuSE 7.0,
kernal 2.2.16) and that is true also f
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ion+ worldwide don't mind."
Customer service - what's that?
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with very few changes.
Jim
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. He did say that the instrument is popular in
the paint and coatings industries. Perhaps they have an old paint stir
stick once used and marked by Krebs and which has been faithfully
copied, then used somehow to take the readings.
Jim
"James R. Frysinger" wrote:
Adrian, I'm not sure w
, and interesting.
Carleton MacDonald
Gaithersburg, Maryland
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e contents
of the message but it apparently starts with "the male and female stages
of life". If you receive any mail like that, do not open it, even if it
claims to be from me.
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on the
condition the new measurement system was named after him.
John
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Right. Again, the question is who, not why. Can it be attributed to any
one person?
Jim
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The term
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Is this as common as it appears? The labels appear be be generated by some
sort of computer or word-processing program. Is this a product of the
pharmaceutical profession in the US?
HARRY WYETH
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nine pins. (T.I.C.)
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"Carter, Baron" wrote:
http://www.fda.gov/cder/dsm/POL/pol-004.htm
Baron Carter
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I've done that a few times, Duncan. Either I the computer sends me a
generic response or I get no response at all.
Jim
Duncan Bath wrote:
Politely point out to them the (international) standard way of writing
these symbols.
Duncan
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Sorry, my "omega" weighed too heavily on my mind. Make that metro. -
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"James R. Frysinger" wrote:
No, actually I think it refers to a Greek work metrom, where the "o" is
omega. If I get a chance with a good Greek dictionary I'll look it up.
Jim
Bi
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Subject: [USMA:9943] RE: [mdq-fr] [USMA 9891] origin of "metric"
No, actually I think it refers to a Gre
ings. So, don't get all hairy if your program is out-dated and
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, then
what you aren't seeing is mu-epsilon-tau-rho-omega chi-rho-omega
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times the capitalisation is used
when it shouldn't be. Only those familiar with the unit would know which
prefix is most applicable.
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shop did Santa stop at to buy this jewel? Or was it mail order
from the factory? Clue us all in, we may want to buy a few.
Thanks,
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ork of geo-stationary satellites.
Reuters/Variety
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an International Space Station status report
(ISS-00-63) that used only International System (SI) units. Thank you
very much...
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Aarghhh!
Jim
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Perhaps this is a typographic error, Mike. I hope the magazine did not
use N/m as the unit symbol for torque. It should be N·m or N m.
I know of at least
ematical
definition of vector.
However, thanks for adding to my relatively limited knowledge of that field.
g
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convenient formalism, as it violates the usual mathematical
definition of vector.
However, thanks for adding to my relatively limited knowledge of
that field.
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in the ISO format: -mm-dd.
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and which data are suspect and why. The satellite went
silent during maneuvers to test its onboard 400-Newton propulsion
system following an earlier orbit-shifting burn.
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Note the reference to a 400 newton propulsion system i
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Pro-metric mailing list now available.
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rding to temperature and compression. However, is there a Rule of
Thumb that a rheologist would use to calculate river flows in the following
Spring, for example?
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heir cause.
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immediately below his byline.
Norm
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mSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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Withworth? Or could it have been metric with a thread pitch
other than 0.7
mm?
What is the exact diameter of the thread, and what is the ptich? Without
that information it is impossible to make a diagnosis.
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vage en machine: 30 ml dans le bac a assouplissant.
Lavage a la main: 15 ml dans l'eau de rincage.
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book" format allows reading the book online at
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309072794/html/
Jim
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comprehensive. The reporter had been given my details by the DTI.
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be an extended affair. Let
the Luddites cool off. They will perish in the silence.
D.
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While you're at it, vectorsnrasters, why don't you measure a CD.
Jim
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Nice work, Bill! I'll take you up on your offer!
Jim
"Hooper, Bill and or Barbara" wrote:
Along the lines of the recent "slogan", here (below) is a longer form of the
same thing in limrick form.
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Subject:
strict SI, the
international system of units) to your readers.
And keep up your standards in the fine art of cartography!
- John Tauxe, PhD, PE
Los Alamos, New Mexico
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Date: January 24, 2001 13:45
Subject: [USMA:10643] Re: IEEE disappointing
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Give this news to those birds of Baltimore!
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for Kilometers Per Hour is KPH and not Km/H...this is
And my response back to him:
Actually, not.
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ficial note provides that,
starting 22 February, largest holes could not exceed 13/16 of an inch
(2,06375 cm).
If this is true, what about the imported gruyere cheese ?
Louis
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eet their Jeffersonian
mandate to educate the electorate accordingly.
James R. Frysinger
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Metrication consultant services
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thing but a load of rubbish. The British and the Irish adopted pound coins
not so long ago without trouble. Yes, I recognize the 'humour' too, the
equivalent of "Give him 2.54 cm and he will take 1609.344 m and a "Miss is
as good as 1.609344 km."
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than the one that's posted there now.
Jim
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, Daniel Bishop wrote:
What I'd like to know is why they think people who speak Chinese as a first
language would understand imperial units. Isn't China metric?
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second. The unit honors the Norwegian oceanographer and Arctic explorer H.
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irely metric now.
Is the ITEA promoting preparation for the future or protecting past
practices?
Sincerely,
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James R. Fr
scientists
of my acquaintance go straight foe the jargon, and the social acceptance
that goes with it.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin CAMS
Geelong, Australia
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Charleston
', but if they wish to 'come out' into the
public domain, they should use SI if they wish to be understood.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin CAMS
Geelong, Australia
on 2001-02-07 10.38, James R. Frysinger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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That's obviously what he had in mind, Gene -- at least to me. Otherwise
he might have randomly picked some number such as 2.718.
Jim
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Gene Mechtly wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, James R. Frysinger wrote:
... 9.8 m/s2 is neither "universal" nor a
be realized, Joe, but I advocate meter
squared (m2 as the simplified symbol) for the US, not hectare.
Gene.
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