On Monday, March 16, 2015 07:19:58 Martin Vlietstra wrote:
Another strange use of prefixes is motor car fuel consumption, usually
written in L/100 km. If this is reduced to base units, one ends up with a
value of the order of 0.1 mm^2!
I think it should be expressed in L/Mm, or equivalently
Absolutely L/km makes sense. Also, it is already in use this way.
John Altounji
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Michael Payne
Sent:
Looking back at the website www.costco.co.uk http://www.costco.co.uk/ I see
they now include mass in grams which was previously absent for the 18 oz steaks.
Mike
On 21 Mar 2015, at 07:48, Martin Vlietstra vliets...@btinternet.com wrote:
They also have 5 litre containers of olive oil – no
I’m surprised they can advertise and price things by the ounce, you say that’s
perfectly legal Martin? I found the same thing in a fast food place in I think
it was Tokyo where they had ounce size steaks on the menu, also in South Africa
where a Starbucks had fluid ounce size cups advertised on
The NRC has decided the United States should just be more like Europe
they want the two bureaucracies to align. I can see the advantage to that
kind of congruence in attempts to change us from the English system of
measure to the metric system at least that would save money in the long
run.
