Diversity of systems, even for measurement is a reminder that these things we depend on are completely arbitrary. So I'm fine with having two systems.
It's through familiarity that they become meaningful and useful. So is there a prefix describing a unit of 10^-5 for me to get familiar with? Phil "Samuel A. Falvo II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > "centimil" and "centithou" both mix imperial and metric units and are thus > > quite illogical. Any other ideas on what I should be calling these things? > > > > Phil Taylor > > The very concept of a "mil" is itself a mixture of metric and imperial > units -- 1 mil = 0.001 inches = 1 milli-inch. > > Since the concept of a mil "metricizes" the imperial unit of an inch, > there is no disgrace in using metric prefixes in front of it. I > rather like the idea of defining a foot as 12 kilomils. ;D > > I just wish the industry at large would just drop imperial units > all-together, and adopt SI units once and for all. But, that won't > happen until long after I die. :) > > -- > Samuel A. Falvo II >
