India's got 10**5 and 10**7 covered for you with lakh and crore. Just don't adopt their comma system please: always looks likes typos to me...
i ------ Original Message ------ Received: 07:07 AM COT, 01/04/2014 From: Rob van der Heij <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: OT: SI units and precision > On 3 January 2014 17:26, Ray Mansell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Indeed, my post was intended to be tongue-in-cheek. My British sense of > > humour often gets me in trouble here in the US. > > > > They don't have any humour there (hoping to get spelling right as an alien) > > I missed my chance to respond on Friday which would be more appropriate, > but since our newspaper today reported "60 cm" of snow in a town near > Boston, I could not resist. > > There's a lot of truth behind your initial response. By reducing the number > of different units we use, there is a suggestion of precision that may not > be founded. Our "60 cm" most likely was 2 feet, and does support the two > significant digits (especially since snow depth is uneven, and more where > you have to clean it). I like the idea that Norway use a special unit for > 10 km distance, so you can express longer distance without suggesting > precision. > > We should have qualifiers with 1 order of magnitude in between, not 3 > orders. To avoid confusion with hex, lets start with "G" for 10, "H" for > 100, etc. > > Rob
