On 04/06/12 17:18, Niall Martin wrote:
Scooter is right: this is not the place for this debate, which I regret starting. In any case it is in danger of confusing the different requirements for unit systems -- needed for scientific, engineering, academic and like purposes -- and informal units for particular purposes. As it happens the founders of the metric system confused them too, but all that matters for modern purposes is overall coherence: everyone should use the same definitions, which should be reliably reproducible, and that it should be easy to move from the very large and the very small. A good collection is to be found in Stephen Dresner: Units of Measurement, Harvey Miller and Medcalf, 1971
Quite right - I apologise for aiding and abetting. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
