[USMA:54555] Units and ASTM

2015-01-06 Thread Stanislav Jakuba
*ASTM International*, known until 2001 as the *American Society for Testing and Materials* (*ASTM*), is an international standards organization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standards_organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical standards

[USMA:54561] Re: Metric BMI

2015-01-06 Thread contact
Willow was born coincidentally on birthday of our president, Barack Obama, 4 Aug 2014, so Willow is about five months old now. - Message from John M. Steele jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net -     Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 08:52:47 -0800     From: John M. Steele jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net

[USMA:54560] Re: Units and ASTM

2015-01-06 Thread Martin Vlietstra
Are many ASTM standards are adopted by ISO? I know that many, if not most ISO standards started life as a national standard. From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of mechtly, eugene a Sent: 06 January 2015 19:15 To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: U.S. Metric

[USMA:54559] Re: Units and ASTM

2015-01-06 Thread mechtly, eugene a
Stan, The practice that I notice most in “Standardization News (SN)” is the *almost total absence* of units of measurement of any kind, absence of SI Units and absence of units from outside the SI as well, except in some of the paid adverting in SN which does seems to favor metric units. In

[USMA:54556] Re: Metric BMI

2015-01-06 Thread contact
Well then if my granddaughter Willow does not fall into the Normal range, please tell me which range she falls into. Thanks. - Message from John M. Steele jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net -     Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 05:14:58 -0800     From: John M. Steele jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net

[USMA:54557] Re: Metric BMI

2015-01-06 Thread John M. Steele
I don't know as you didn't give her age. See the curves by age in the Wikipedia article. However, they are only percentiles not age. My only point is that BMI ranges don't apply to children under 20 years and a different interpretation of the BMI is used. I would further caution that any

[USMA:54558] Re: Metric BMI

2015-01-06 Thread Martin Vlietstra
To put this into perspective, a new-born baby weighs typically 3.5 kg and is between 50 and 55 cm in length. This gives a BMI of between 11.5 and 14. From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of John M. Steele Sent: 06 January 2015 16:53 To: U.S. Metric