las wrote:
>
> Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
>
> > One could say the same thing about metre, litre, gram, Newton, or any other
> > unit of measure that we use.
> >
>
> That may be true, but in the case of cps, we had something in place that was
> descriptive. Just because we use non descriptive terms for many things does
> not make dropping the one descriptive term that we had excusable.
IF you were German, you would have to say, "Schleifen pro Sekunde",
Portuguese "ciclos por o segundo", Italian cicli al secondo", Spanish
"ciclos por segundo", French, "cycles par seconde"
and I wouldn't know what the heck you were talking about. Now they say
Hertz and the world knows what they are talking about.
If you look at Rat's post, he says metre and litre instead of meter and
liter, but it is close enough that we know what he means. That is why
Hertz is better.
> If you drove into the gas station today and asked for high test, the kid would
> look at you like you are nuts. But what does "extra", "premium", "super",
> "ultra", etc. mean??
Marketing hype... it has nothing at all to do with science.
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