Gene,
This argument seems to arise every 3 years on this mailing list. Or it
has over the last 20 years, anyway. And it never accomplishes anything
except to let people voice their preferences. It never accomplishes
anything. That is because there is no right way or wrong way to
pronounce
-02-17 21:44, James Frysinger wrote:
Gene,
This argument seems to arise every 3 years on this mailing list. Or it
has over the last 20 years, anyway. And it never accomplishes anything
except to let people voice their preferences. It never accomplishes
anything. That is because there is no right
Has anyone found such a medical Glossary?
It's not a glossary, rather a compilation of units of measure for
various medical parameters. To a very limited extent the meanings of the
quantity terms are given.
What I am speaking of is a joint project now underway -- ISO/IEC 80003
(series),
Sent to FoxNews.com a moment ago.
Jim
Original Message
Subject: Math error in article
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:31:43 -0500
From: James Frysinger j...@metricmethods.com
To: foxnewsonl...@foxnews.com
I think you have a gross math error in your online article, Amazing new
The liter is defined by the CGPM, not by NIST.
Jim
On 2013-08-05 12:34, Henschel Mark wrote:
I think we should ask NIST to redefine a litre as eight cups. Each one
would be slightly bigger than 30 mL, but the math to increase recipe
sizes would be a lot easier.
Mark
- Original Message
that NIST should redefine a cup as an
eighth of a liter.
David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
- Message from j...@metricmethods.com -
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 13:01:18 -0500
From: James Frysinger j...@metricmethods.com
Reply-To: j...@metricmethods.com
Subject: [USMA:53135
There is an excellent column in the 2013 August issue of American
Rifleman (NRA) on grassroots pressure. The author, Chris Cox, cites an
article on Forbes.com by Amy Showalter and discusses the points she
raised. Showalter's article (and thus Cox's) discuss five points that
made the NRA
DELAYED 1 DAY WAITING FOR INTERNET ACCESS.
Nice to see all metric in CNN note:
The Palm islands comprise approximately 100 million cubic meters of
rock and sand. In total, 210 million cubic meters of rock, sand and
limestone were reclaimed (through dredging) to create the islands, with
10
It's a long stretch from metrication to area codes. Please keep to the
purpose of this mail list.
Jim
On 2013-06-30 19:03, Scott Hudnall wrote:
Don't forget 650 for the Peninsula. Also, 408 just got overlaid with
669, 415 is being overlaid with 628, and they have announced 510 is
getting an
:52931] Re: (Off Topic) Paper size ratios
On Friday, June 14, 2013 17:51:28 James Frysinger wrote:
But we also know that the A series is no more SI-based than my
Great-Aunt Penelope's petunia patch. So, this is indeed an off-topic
email. Apologies given, if you feel you deserve them. Grin.
An A0
On 2013-06-15 12:08, James Frysinger wrote:
IEEE Std 260.1 suggests using m2 instead of sq m when superscripts
are not available. One could also use m^2.
Jim
Apparently there is a significant amount of literature on Canons of
Page Construction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canons_of_page_construction
Some folks assert that medieval page size and design was base on the
Golden Ratio (modern symbol, lowercase phi):
phi = (1 +
It may surprise folks to find that the US National Flag is set to only a
nominal ratio of length (fly) to width (hoist), namely 1.9:1.
http://flagcode.us/US_Flag_Dimensions/
http://www.cvsflags.com/gspecus.cfm
Commercial realizations of that in various sizes depart from that
That (metric.org) was implemented as an alias years ago. Try it by going
to that URL.
Jim
On 2013-06-02 01:42, Eric Kow wrote:
Hello USMA (and fans)!
Just joined the list but have been growing an interest in US metrication for
some time.
I was just wondering: would it be beneficial for
Most of my driving is either in Tennessee or to and from Ohio via
Kentucky. My GPS is set to metric and that works well for me.
On the few occasions that I pay attention to distance to signs I do a
quick 8/5 conversion in my head. Even a 3/2 conversion would suit most
of my needs in such
Well, of course the government can enact legislation mandating
metrication of the US, Mark. The U.S. Constitution enumerates its power
to do so in weights and measures!
(Strangely, the Constitution does NOT enumerate education or healthcare
as one of the federal governments responsibilities
The response is very accurate. The 1975 metrication program was designed
to be one of voluntary conversion. Government participation was designed
to be a matter of support and encouragement. The 1988 Omnibus bill added
example-setting to the government's role.
Remember the aphorism, You can't
One of the ways that we can promote proper SI usage is to correct errors
in that usage when used in public. Many emails have been posted to this
list telling of efforts, many successful, to do so.
One such set of public documents are those that appear on Wikipedia.
This system allows public
want
to check about the current style guide. --Martin Morrison
On Wed, 22 May 2013, James Frysinger wrote:
One of the ways that we can promote proper SI usage is to correct
errors in that usage when used in public. Many emails have been posted
to this list telling of efforts, many
to me the keepers of the medical laboratory units may need to
brush up on how SI is applied.
Paul Trusten, Reg. Pharmacist
Vice President
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
Midland, Texas USA
www.metric.org
+1(432)528-7724
trus...@grandecom.net
On May 19, 2013, at 15:55, James Frysinger j
I was doing some research for my sister's use of vitamin B12 supplements
and came to this page:
http://www.webmd.com/diet/vitamin-b12-15239?page=2
It contains a small chart:
Vitamin B12Normal:
More than 200-835 picograms per milliliter (pg/mL)
. Pharmacist
Vice President
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
Midland, Texas USA
www.metric.org
+1(432)528-7724
trus...@grandecom.net
On May 19, 2013, at 15:55, James Frysinger j...@metricmethods.com wrote:
I was doing some research for my sister's use of vitamin B12 supplements and
came
I'm reading one of my dad's old Navy books. This lists the daily ration
specified by an act of Congress (no name given for this act) on 1933
March 02.
All quantities are given in ounces avoirdupois except eggs and oil or
sauce or vinegar. The latter is specified as 2/5 gill.
I had not
I upgraded to a larger tractor yesterday. I traded in my Massey-Ferguson
1540 for a MF 1643. So, like a good farmer and engineer, I'm reading the
owners manuals for it and the front end loader it came with.
I was pleased to see a note in the tractor manual, All fasteners on
this tractor are
Both diesel and gasoline are about 85% carbon w/w
A better way to express that, per NIST SP 811, would be Both diesel
fuel and gasoline have a carbon mass fraction of 850 g/kg or Both
diesel fuel and gasoline have a carbon mass fraction of 0.85 kg/kg.
Jim
On 2013-04-24 17:45, John M. Steele
The article is useless and poorly written, as many here have pointed
out. I have significant experience in radiological controls for human
exposure and nothing here provides me with sufficient data to estimate
resulting exposures.
It does serve one sole purpose, perhaps its only intended one
You are correct, Mark. The short ton (2000 lb) is the one meant by the
simple name ton for most applications; the term short ton is hardly
ever used except to distinguish it in discussions such as this. The long
ton is used most notably in the maritime industry for vessel capacities
(tonnage),
said?
*From:* James Frysinger j...@metricmethods.com
*To:* U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
*Sent:* Mon, April 8, 2013 12:47:59 PM
*Subject:* [USMA:52630] Re: Unclear use of radiation units
The article is useless
Sure, you could express it in yoctograms (or the mass of IGF-1 in
zeptograms), Michael. But why would you want to?
In a way, the dalton (Da, spelled out name starts in lowercase) is
somewhat analogous to but opposite the astronimical unit u_a.
One astronomical unit equals
-Original Message-
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu
[mailto:owner-usma@colostate.__edu
mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf
Of James Frysinger
Sent: 06 April 2013 22:46
To: U.S. Metric Association
My wife has just cleared some large weeds from a hill sloping away from
our house's north wall and she announced that she wants to smother it in
mulch. The question immediately arose, How many bags of mulch will it
take?
I had her look at a bag of mulch left from last year and she told me it
I used to make that point by asking my physics students for volunteers
to paint my house the next summer for the sum of 100 000, to be divided
by the entire crew. Most males and some females would raise their hands.
Usually a student would finally ask, 100 000 what?. If not, I asked
the
Zach, I don't know what NWS page you are going to, but the NWS page I
use is in metric units (with the exception of pressures in millibars,
incorrectly represented by mb).
My page has a toggle at the bottom labeled International System of
Units. Toggle it back and forth between metric and
When Weather Underground first started up years ago I swapped many
emails with their top staff on formatting issues. They were extremely
responsive to my comments, which I also documented on the USMA mail list.
A couple of days ago I sent off a detailed email to NWS Nashville
commenting on
are written centrally to produce the pages from data tables in their
model, and are common software.However, many of my comments were
addressed in the new scripts released last year.
*From:* James Frysinger j
.
Because I am stuck on the edge of a square, I wasted a lot of time
trying to recenter the square, but no joy.
*From:* James Frysinger j...@metricmethods.com
*To:* U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
*Sent:* Wed, March
I do urge that data from personal weather stations be taken with a grain of
salt. These are not certified, calibrated instruments and they are often poorly placed.
What John says here is correct. I use one of the better personal weather
stations, a Davis Vantage Pro2, but it does have its
As they say here in Tennessee, 'At there's a goodun!
Jim
On 2013-02-06 14:28, Jim Elwell wrote:
Einstein, Newton and Pascal are hanging out one afternoon. Einstein is
bored, so he suggests, Let's play hide-and-seek. I'll be it!
The others agree, so Einstein begins counting. One . . . Two . .
As far as I know, the law still stands encouraging states to metricate
their highway departments. All that Fritz Hollings changed in his TEA
bill was to remove the deadline date for accomplishing that.
Jim
On 2013-01-22 17:17, ezra.steinb...@comcast.net wrote:
So, the states still have the
It's not quite as simple as that, Ed.
There are three categories of labeling in the retail market place:
1. Those regulated by the federal government -- FPLA, FDA regulations,
USDA regulations, etc.
2. Those ignored by the federal government but regulated by the various
states and territories
The White House has just changed the threshold for petitions to 100 000.
Argh!
Jim
On 2013-01-17 11:19, Paul Trusten wrote:
I only mentioned the response to the Texas petition because the
Administration did indeed respond to a petition that reached the 25,000
threshold. I prefer to remain
That's a good follow-up to my posting [USMA:52125]. Thanks!
Jim
On 2013-01-13 19:41, i...@metricrules.org wrote:
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21569417-kilogram-it-seems-no-longer-kilogram-paris-worth-mass?frsc=dg%7Ca
Sent from my iPad
I, for one, would appreciate it if those who post here would remain on
topic. Especially they should avoid topics that might encourage
fractious debate not relating to the metric system.
Surely there are other forums in which participants can express their
feelings, pro or con, about the
This might interest you. It includes a proposal on a method for cleaning
the international kilogram prototype.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/07/kilogram-has-gained-weight/?intcmp=features
Jim
--
James R. Frysinger
632 Stony Point Mountain Road
Doyle, TN 38559-3030
(C) 931.212.0267
I looked up chazerei on yahoo.com and this email was the fourth item
listed! Now, how's that for making a quick international impression?
Jim
On 2012-11-27 08:12, Ressel, Howard (DOT) wrote:
If Yiddish can make the US mainstream with words like chazerei (or Chazari -
one of my favorites
Dear Colleagues,
This is an important step for the IAU. The definition of the
astronomical unit (ua or, as they put it, AU) is now a fixed number. In
their field this is a momentous as the decision made not that long ago
by the CGPM to define the speed of light as a fixed number rather than a
I've just finished reading a mystery novel that is entirely metric. All
sizes and distances are given in metric units. The setting of the story
is Venice IT.
The book is:
_Death at La Fenice_
Donna Leon
1992, Harper Collins
Jim
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James R. Frysinger
632 Stony Point Mountain Road
Doyle, TN
Peterson's cell size incorrect
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:42:59 -0500
From: James Frysinger j...@metricmethods.com
To: foxnewst...@foxnews.com
See
http://www.foxnews.com/as of July 06 at 1337 CDT
San Quentin prison officials reveal details about the daily routine
of Laci Peterson's killer, from his
I've pointed these sites out before. Here they are again:
Wiha Tools
folding rulers (Nice ones! I bought these for my physics labs.):
http://www.wihatools.com/600seri/616serie.htm
calipers:
http://www.wihatools.com/400seri/411serie_calipers.htm
They also have metric tape measures, etc.
Ben
This is an interesting article contrasting ton and tonne in a discussion
of dinosaur masses.
Jim
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/05/diet-season-dinosaurs-slim-down-in-new-analysis/
Nope. It blew right by me, too!
Jim
--
James R. Frysinger
632 Stony Point Mountain Road
Doyle, TN 38559-3030
(C) 931.212.0267
(H) 931.657.3107
(F) 931.657.3108
On 2012-05-20 14:31, Bill Hooper wrote:
I just got the joke!
If each magazine was a Centinela,
and one interprets that to mean
I've been reviewing the materials that Intex provides for its above
ground pools, particularly one rated as 16 ft diameter and 42 in depth.
That would sound rather non-metric:
I have just received a book I ordered as a birthday gift for my wife,
_The Oboe Reed Book_ , by Jay Light. Having glanced through it quickly
it seems that the book uses only metric units. Specifically, critical
reed dimensions are given in millimeters, to the nearest 0.1 mm.
I have noticed
Paul,
The hectare is alive and well and frequently used in the United States.
Some fields of endeavor that use it are forestry and agriculture. Yields
in terms of kilograms per hectare or cubic meters per hectare are common
in agricultural research articles, for example. Hectares are used in
Paul Rittman (and others),
I went to the USDA.gov website and typed hectare. The first 1.5 pages
of hits gave me these examples:
a 3 percent increase over 2010/11 planted area of 24.2 million hectares. ...
to result in very good national yields of 3 metric tons per hectare
I just made reservations at a hotel in Pigeon Forge TN for a conference
I'll be attending. Later I discovered a page they provide on local
attractions:
It seems like this list goes through the same discussion every year or
two about hecto- versus kilo-, especially when used with the pascal.
You will find nothing in the Si Brochure giving the prefixes hecto-,
deka-, deci-, or centi- any lower status than the powers of 1000 prefixes.
Let us
Dear Michael,
IEEE/ASTM SI 10 3.3.3.1 states (in part):
[T]he millibar (100 Pa) should be called by its SI name,
the hectopascal (hPa).
I'm sure that you can look up a similar statement in NIST SP 811, freely
available for downloading.
Jim
--
James R. Frysinger
632 Stony
I had reason to be tooling around in 15CFR14 and came across this
section, 15 CFR 14.15 - Metric system of measurement.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/15/14/15
Perhaps you folks have seen this or perhaps not. This seems to be the
place in the Federal Code where DoC compliance with
That was Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-SC) who deleted the due date for metric
compliance. He was not from Alabama. I wrote to him on this issue while
it was in committee and he sent a personal reply, assuring me that state
highway departments would not revert. Right!
Jim
--
James R. Frysinger
632
It has been said many times on here that rainfall amounts are commonly
given in millimeters. Further, it has been noted that 1 mm = 1 L/m2. I
have just come across a Swiss weather report that gives precipitation in
l/m2 (lowercase symbol for liter).
A nice, metric ball game!
Story:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2012/01/30/fast-friendly-fun.html
The game:
http://www.tchoukball.us/tchoukball/the-game/fundamentals/
Jim
, j...@frewston.plus.com wrote:
Not a conversion is sight! That is truly amazing, and surely
demonstrates that Americans are quite capable of coping with raw metric
values without them having to be dumbed down.
John F-L
-Original Message- From: James Frysinger
Sent: Tuesday, January 31
NIST. Both U.S. copies of the one prototype kilogram.
Jim
--
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632 Stony Point Mountain Road
Doyle, TN 38559-3030
(C) 931.212.0267
(H) 931.657.3107
(F) 931.657.3108
On 2012-01-19 16:12, Martin Vlietstra wrote:
Who is responsible for the custody of the US prototype kilogram?
) 931.657.3107
(F) 931.657.3108
On 2012-01-19 16:46, James Frysinger wrote:
NIST. Both U.S. copies of the one prototype kilogram.
Jim
Not too shabby! That's an acceleration of 210 m/s2, or about 21.4 times
g_n. BTW, the exponent -1 was not superscripted in the news article but
I'll let them slide on that.
Jim
In high-speed images of the best jumps the body was accelerated in 10
ms to a take-off velocity of 2.1 m s−1 …
I just checked in to a Hilton Gardens Inn in Franklin TN and was
delighted to find that the rooms heating and air conditioning settings
are regulated by a wall-mounted thermostat -- that can be switched back
and forth between °C and °F! It appears that the Celsius settings and
current readings
The AP seems to have done a decent job of not screwing up the metric
measurements in this article.
Jim
http://hosted2.ap.org/OHCOL/8ef5320729ce4298abefc1903704c7d5/Article_2011-11-14-EU-Netherlands-Mosquito-Habits/id-366963cce801415f854455c70a107f56
And not translated when it crossed the border ... unlike many other
articles I have read.
Jim
On 2011-11-14 11:12, John Frewen-Lord wrote:
Well. it was written by Canadian Press!
John F-L
- Original Message - From: James R. Frysinger
j...@metricmethods.com
To: U.S. Metric
Just thinking out loud here. Would TSA permit TWO toothpaste tubes (or
bottles of cologne, etc.), each under 100 mL but totaling more than 100 mL?
Jim
--
James R. Frysinger
632 Stony Point Mountain Road
Doyle, TN 38559-3030
(C) 931.212.0267
(H) 931.657.3107
(F) 931.657.3108
On 2011-11-06
I sent in the comments below. Note that when a comment is submitted, AP
sends an email with a link to be clicked on for confirmation. Otherwise
the comment is discarded.
Jim Frysinger
Please reflect proper use of the metric system. Your stylebooks to date
have hindered the teaching that our
: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:07:37 -0500
From: James Frysinger j...@metricmethods.com
mailto:j...@metricmethods.com
Reply-To: j...@metricmethods.com mailto:j...@metricmethods.com
To: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
mailto:usma@colostate.edu
CC: U.S. Metric
Thank you for those expansions and corrections, John!
Jim
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James R. Frysinger
632 Stony Point Mountain Road
Doyle, TN 38559-3030
(C) 931.212.0267
(H) 931.657.3107
(F) 931.657.3108
On 2011-10-12 10:20, John M. Steele wrote:
I largely agree with the recommendations made by Jim Frysinger;
You may have heard of the troubles experienced by the Gibson guitar
company. Their supply of rosewood fingerboards was confiscated and they
were fined for violations of the Lacey Act as amended in 2008. Those
rosewood fingerboard blanks were legally exported from India but the
U.S. has ruled
Message-
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of
James Frysinger
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 7:30 PM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:51186] Highway sign with dual units
Seen today on I-75 southbound in NW Ohio:
Bowling Green
10 miles
16
Seen today on I-75 southbound in NW Ohio:
Bowling Green
10 miles
16 kilometers
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James R. Frysinger
632 Stony Point Mountain Road
Doyle, TN 38559-3030
(C) 931.212.0267
(H) 931.657.3107
(F) 931.657.3108
is currently printed, as no one would actually carry a
large amount in singles. It is an incremental $47 100 in debt for every
man, woman, and child in addition to their own debts.
--- On *Sat, 9/24/11, James Frysinger /j...@metricmethods.com/* wrote:
From: James Frysinger j...@metricmethods.com
think M5 is part of the spec
however.
--- On *Tue, 9/6/11, James Frysinger /j...@metricmethods.com/* wrote:
From: James Frysinger j...@metricmethods.com
Subject: [USMA:51085] TV mounting bracket
To: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 3:54
Wendy, Pat Naughtin's widow, just sent me a note about a newspaper
clipping (source unknown), which stated:
To Bonnie and Roger a daughter (4060kgs) Born January 2nd 2006 – Mum
and baby home and well.
Pat did like a bit of humor!
Wendy sent this note to me under the subject heading Ouch and
Bill,
I've played around online and it appears at first that this would be
translated loosely as:
Visit 250 m from here the birthplace [source of the stones] of the
Pyramid in the ancient Roman quarries of Glanum.
The word mas actually means farmhouse, from what I can see. It is as
if the
Periodically people post requests here for metric recipes. I have posted
a few metric recipes, as have others.
Yesterday I received some books that I ordered from AmericanCanner.com.
The books listed below were published in Canada and all three provide
metric quantity values as well as
I have just started reading NFPA 780, an American National Standard for
the Installation of Lightning Protection Systems (2011).
It uses SI units primarily and non-SI units secondarily, as stated in
Clause 1.6. The SI units take precedence as the standard values. I did
notice one drawing
Pat's wife told me that Pat had made prior arrangements with a friend to
keep the site up.
Jim
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James R. Frysinger
632 Stony Point Mountain Road
Doyle, TN 38559-3030
(C) 931.212.0267
(H) 931.657.3107
(F) 931.657.3108
On 2011-07-21 17:53, Michal Planicka wrote:
What is the future of
Some time ago, probably more than 10 years now, I wrote to National
Geographic's top officer after being ignored many times by routine
letters to the editor on this subject. As I recall, I eventually even
had to make a phone call to indicate that I desired an actual response.
I did receive a
.
*From:* James Frysinger j...@metricmethods.com
*To:* U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
*Sent:* Thu, July 7, 2011 10:16:21 PM
*Subject:* [USMA:50831] Stretching the second
Folks,
You might find this article of some interest. It reports an effort made
Excellent point, Martin! And in fact it is the precision and stability
of modern atomic clocks that permit geophysicists to measure that
varying Earth rotation rate (and thus the varying length of the common
day).
Jim
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James R. Frysinger
632 Stony Point Mountain Road
Doyle, TN 38559-3030
♽☯♑
On Jul 8, 2011, *James Frysinger* j...@metricmethods.com wrote:
Excellent point, Martin! And in fact it is the precision and stability
of modern atomic clocks that permit geophysicists to measure that
varying Earth rotation rate (and thus the varying length of the common
day
Folks,
You might find this article of some interest. It reports an effort made
by some people to convince the ITU (formerly, International Telegraph
Union) to change the way that UTC is calculated, probably by departing
from the atomic second as they call it -- actually, the unit second as
The Dual-Labeling law permits placing the SI and non-SI indications in
either order.
Jim
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James R. Frysinger
632 Stony Point Mountain Road
Doyle, TN 38559-3030
(C) 931.212.0267
(H) 931.657.3107
(F) 931.657.3108
On 2011-07-05 23:29, Harry Wyeth wrote:
A slightly different topic: I am
I thought that some of you might find this to be useful. At least,
please pass this on to teachers who might benefit from it. This
paragraph was extracted from an email sent to me by Scott Orthey of
ASTM. It should be noted that, I am told, IEEE/ASTM SI 10 can be listed
as one of the ten
spelling, would
prefer the American orthography./
/
/
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Geelong, Australia
On 2011/07/01, at 08:59 , James Frysinger wrote:
Dear Pat,
I don't suppose you would describe your viewpoints here as being more
ethnocentric than objective, would you? Corrupt? Own commercial
interests
Dear Pat,
I don't suppose you would describe your viewpoints here as being more
ethnocentric than objective, would you? Corrupt? Own commercial
interests? Paranoia? Grin.
Jim
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James R. Frysinger
632 Stony Point Mountain Road
Doyle, TN 38559-3030
(C) 931.212.0267
(H) 931.657.3107
(F)
My wife recently purchased for me, via shopgoodwill.com, an informally
assembled metric handbook for Chrysler. It is bound in a cardboard
binder (the type with two long prongs that fold over and are held down
by sliders) and it comprises several sections. The first three sections are:
_SI
This AP article uses only metric units, though the quantity is muddled.
They speak of rotating the Hunley by 800 mm to 1000 mm in 2 mm
increments. Obviously they are speaking of the tangential displacement
at the radius of the hull, not an angular displacement.
Jim
Try
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/supplies.htm
about the second item down. Those are 20 cm long, not 30 cm. They have
millimeter markings on one side and centimeter markings on the other side.
Jim
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James R. Frysinger
632 Stony Point Mountain Road
Doyle, TN 38559-3030
(C)
In the first listing of metric units in the U.S., the hectare, are, and
centare (no i) were listed with their equivalents in acres, square
yards, and square inches, respectively. That was in the Metric Act of
1866 act. See the section Measures of Surface at
Yes, Swedes use non-SI units and non-SI symbols, too. The commonly used
symbol for square meter in real estate ads is kvm (kvadratmeter).
Occasionally I saw the correct symbol.
The teaspoon (tesked, tsk) is 5 mL and the tablespoon (matsked, msk) are
commonly seen in recipes. Americans seem to
I'm in Sweden this week -- specifically, in Kista, which is a district
of Stockholm. The purpose of this trip is to represent the U.S. National
Committee (of ANSI) at IEC/TC 1 and TC 25 working group meetings. But
that's another story.
McDonald's apparently has Sweden surrounded! I went into
I purchased a 16 GB thumbdrive this afternoon. After I plugged it into a
USB port, I checked my Computer window and it told me it was a 14.9
GB drive. Sure enough
14.9E9 * (1024)^3 = 16.0E9
and the Computer window should have told me I had a 14.9 GiB drive.
And that, ladies and
I have just started reading the novel _Three Seconds_ by Anders Roslund
and Börge Hellström (2009), translated by Kari Dickson (2010); published
by Silver Oak (Sterling Publishing Co.) if New York. It's a story about
an attempt to establish a drug market in Sweden by some Polish mafia.
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