[USMA 317] World Book Typical Course of Study

2016-09-08 Thread Pierre Abbat
http://www.worldbook.com/typical-course-of-study.aspx The third grade math contains "Generate measurement data, measuring lengths to halves and fourths of an inch." A few other grades mention English and metric systems. There's a "Contact Us" page if you'd like to comment (I just did). Pierre

[USMA 309] Re: Fahrenheit-Celsius Both Flawed

2016-09-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 20:05:27 Kaimbridge M. GoldChild wrote: > In terms of temperature measurement, it would seem that both the > Fahrenheit *and* Celsius scales are flawed. > In angle measurement, there is the raw radian—where 1 radian > along a circleʼs circumference equals its

[USMA 277] TED-Ed talk about metric system

2016-07-21 Thread Pierre Abbat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bUVjJWA6Vw -- Jews use a lunisolar calendar; Muslims use a solely lunar calendar. ___ USMA mailing list USMA@colostate.edu https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma

[USMA 276] Re: Is this covered by the FPLA?

2016-07-20 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday, July 16, 2016 00:56:49 jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net wrote: > I think the answer is yes. The text of the FPLA (and FTC regulations) is > given on the metric laws page of the USMA website. Whats covered is in > section 1459 of the FPLA. If it is not covered by the FPLA, it would fall >

[USMA 275] Re: How common are kitchen scales?

2016-07-20 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, July 18, 2016 08:33:50 Jason Christopher Hudson wrote: > Honestly, unless you're baking, you really don't need to use a scale. There > are cooks on Food Network such as Ina Garten, The Barefoot Contessa, who > will give recipes for baking in grams. > > You can also find kitchen scales

[USMA 259] Re: How common are kitchen scales?

2016-07-15 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, July 12, 2016 10:18:45 jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net wrote: > In the US, I would say relatively rare. It would almost require some > special interest, portion control for diabetes or weigh loss, interest in > cooking "foreign" recipes, etc. If the household has one, it is likely to > be

[USMA 258] Is this covered by the FPLA?

2016-07-15 Thread Pierre Abbat
It's a bacterial spray for the skin. It's sold as a cosmetic, is used for personal care, and is consumed in use. I did not buy it from a retail store, however. I bought it from the manufacturer. A slip of paper has an email address to contact the company if one wants to sell it wholesale. See

[USMA 226] How common are kitchen scales?

2016-07-11 Thread Pierre Abbat
I recently got the book Healthy 4 Life from the WAPF. Besides nutritional advice, it is full of recipes, almost all of which use cups or spoons as units. I'm thinking of asking them to provide the equivalent mass in grams of all ingredients. The mass, however, is no use without a scale. If I

[USMA 225] Re: Cartoon

2016-07-11 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, July 11, 2016 17:09:20 James wrote: > My wife came across this "almost metric" cartoon, as she put it... > > https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/13653401_10153505042931595_5208 > 133551650750595_o.jpg I got a timeout. Is it available elsewhere? Pierre -- loi mintu se ckaji

[USMA 213] Metric math schoolbook

2016-06-19 Thread Pierre Abbat
http://www.christopherushomeschool.com/our-store/publications-age-guide/fourth-grade-mathematics-bundle-metric/ I haven't actually seen the book, but according to the description, this option is all metric, and the other option isn't. Pierre -- loi mintu se ckaji danlu cu jmaji

[USMA 203] Unit mixup while surveying

2016-06-09 Thread Pierre Abbat
A few weeks ago I went out with my new survey-quality GPS system to check coordinates of two benchmarks to make sure that I can use the system right. I went to a benchmark called Rainbow which was a bit hard to find. Not seeing it on the ground, I entered the coordinates and told the system to

[USMA 65] units at the doctor

2016-01-19 Thread Pierre Abbat
I went to the doctor yesterday, many months after my last visit. (Not my usual doctor, but someone else in the same office.) She agreed that it is absurd to measure patients' mass and temperature in backward units, but said it's what the state requires. * What part of the government sets the

[USMA 55] Re: Metric in 1869 Harvard Entrance Examination

2015-12-27 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday, December 25, 2015 13:08:29 jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net wrote: > Question 6 is no piece of cake. All three should be compulsory for BWMA, > ARM, ACWM and the like. No true Imperialist would fail to answer > correctly. > > I would get "epic fail" on the Latin, Greek, History &

[USMA:54869] liters per square meter

2015-10-09 Thread Pierre Abbat
I've been ignoring the list because I've been busy with other things, such as surveying land. After sticking traverse nails all over the parcel of land, last week I completed a small traverse with a 78 mm misclosure and figured out that my pole is out of kilter. I am now in Germany meeting

[USMA:54870] RE: Abbreviation for Degrees Celsius

2015-10-09 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, September 10, 2015 11:55:40 Michael Payne wrote: > Hold down the ALT key and type 0176 will get you the degree symbol on a > Microsoft computer, on an apple it's Opt k On Unix, hit the compose key (mine is the right Alt key; check your keyboard setup) and hit the lowercase o twice.

[USMA:54723] World's Roundest Object

2015-06-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y -- lo ponse be lo mruli ku po'o cu ga'ezga roda lo ka dinko

[USMA:54714] RE: software that uses measurements

2015-05-22 Thread Pierre Abbat
Back to the question. Suppose you're writing a program to keep track of fuel consumption and odometer readings of a car. Would you store the odometer readings -in whichever unit they are entered in? -always in kilometers? -always in meters? And the fuel consumption, would you store it in the

[USMA:54713] RE: software that uses measurements

2015-05-21 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 13:44:33 Mark Henschel wrote: Pierre: Also don't forget Astronomical units and also Parsecs, neither or which is part of SI. The astronomical unit is precisely known (and now defined) in meters, and the parsec is a radian-AU per arc second. So there's no problem

[USMA:54710] software that uses measurements

2015-05-19 Thread Pierre Abbat
Other than astronomic (stars' masses are known more precisely in sun's masses than in kilograms), atomic (charges are integral numbers of elementary charges but unround numbers of coulombs), and angular (angles are often expressed as turns divided by an integer rather than radians), are there

[USMA:54660] Re: Adoption of the metric system in medicine

2015-03-23 Thread Pierre Abbat
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

[USMA:54639] Re: Adoption of the metric system in medicine

2015-03-15 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 20:31:08 James wrote: Strangely, Chapter 5 of the SI Brochure is silent on that, Pierre. At least, I could find nothing on the matter. When you describe this proper style, which standard are you using for your reference? Would you please provide a quote of its

[USMA:54629] RE: FW: ID Card in Jordan

2015-03-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday, December 27, 2014 12:33:55 Martin Vlietstra wrote: In some countries, blood sugar level is measured in mg/dL. I believe that the use of dL rather than litres or mL is to avoid using decimal separators. A blood level are typically in the range of 75 to 150 mg/dL. This could be

[USMA:54599] Adoption of the metric system in medicine

2015-02-09 Thread Pierre Abbat
of the deciliter in the denominator should be deprecated. Pierre Abbat -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga .icu'u la ma'atman.

[USMA:54434] Cellphone 911 accuracy

2014-10-25 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday I listened to a segment of All Things Considered about the accuracy of cellphone 911 location. They want to reduce the error from 100 m to 50 m and provide vertical location in case the caller is in an apartment. I don't know how they plan to do that, since floors are usually 2.5 to

[USMA:54273] 500 grams of ground beef

2014-08-05 Thread Pierre Abbat
I went to Earth Fare yesterday (the same place I got the livers back in March) and noticed that they had grass-fed ground beef from Australia for less than the local ground beef, which didn't make sense. So I asked for 500 g of ground beef, and as before, they tried to convert it to ounces for

[USMA:54229] Re: FW: chicken coolers

2014-07-28 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, July 27, 2014 20:29:11 James wrote: You cited Part 381, Section 381.66, so I suggest that you start with the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the US Department of Agriculture with mention of that particular Section. I provided the link to FSIS in my first paragraph. If

[USMA:54218] chicken coolers

2014-07-27 Thread Pierre Abbat
A guy who runs a chicken processing plant asked me to write a program that runs on a microcontroller and monitors the temperature in the refrigerators where they store chicken. The data will be sent to another computer to record the temperature and to alert someone if something goes wrong. I

[USMA:54221] Re: FW: chicken coolers

2014-07-27 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, July 27, 2014 14:26:39 James wrote: Pierre, I would write to the head of the department that maintains that regulation, with copy to Ken Butcher and Elizabeth Gentry at NIST. In that I would put the request that they metricate that regulation per EO 12770 and the Metric Act, as

[USMA:53894] Re: MG

2014-05-29 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 20:31:48 Harold_Potsdamer wrote: From the BIPM site, Table 3 4 they uses spaces between the unit symbols. http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/chapter2/2-2/table3.html http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/chapter2/2-2/table4.html Thus: K Pa Hz This

[USMA:53890] Re: Toyota Tacoma

2014-05-28 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, May 22, 2014 09:37:32 Michael Payne wrote: Anyone on the USMA list server want to buy a Toyota Tacoma with a km/h speedometer and odometer? Speedometer installed before delivery of new vehicle, has 185000 km on odometer, excellent condition, complete maintenance records. Owner

[USMA:53819] Re: MG

2014-05-15 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 16:36:34 cont...@metricpioneer.com wrote: Dr Patricia Weeks here at the Salem Clinic printed out a perscription for my wife today for 150 MG of a particular medication. Astonished, I pointed out to Dr Weeks that when the M is capitalized, it means mega, which in this

[USMA:53782] Re: Error-prone abbreviations in medicine

2014-05-06 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, May 05, 2014 10:20:27 Mark Henschel wrote: Three times a day? said my friends brother. It was three times a month! What *is* the symbol for a month? For that matter, I've seen both a and y for year, and both have problems (ignoring what exact definition of year you mean, if you need

[USMA:53768] Error-prone abbreviations in medicine

2014-05-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
https://www.ismp.org/Tools/errorproneabbreviations.pdf The top of the list is µg, which supposedly can be misread as mg. The ISMP recommends the incorrect symbol mcg. For cc, it correctly recommends mL. I don't see how cc can be misread as u though. There's a q6PM for every day at 6 PM. Why

[USMA:53699] Re: Common Core Math

2014-04-08 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, April 07, 2014 13:14:28 Ressel, Howard R wrote: We might not like it but American children do need to learn to speak both languages. It would be better though if metric was primarily and English secondary and I agree, a bit more background on when to use either or at least what

[USMA:53676] Common Core Math

2014-04-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/MD/ They're still introducing inches and centimeters together and not explaining that the inch is defined in metric, thus leaving students confused about which units to use. Have any of you written to Common Core about this? I was off the list a few

[USMA:53633] 500 grams of chicken liver

2014-03-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
Yesterday I went to Earth Fare and asked for 500 grams of chicken liver. (Usually if I ask for something, it's wings, which I ask for by number.) The guy answered Got it and went back to find the right sized container. Then he asked me and another guy how much that is. I explained that 480 g

[USMA:53579] Re: No Accent on lom in kilometer!

2014-02-18 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 17:21:33 Patrick Moore wrote: Sorry, but no. Stress as pronounced is described by phonological rules in the deep structure of a language, if the word is regular. English is notoriously full of exceptions, irregular words.Try writing some Miltonic blank verse.

[USMA:53569] Re: No Accent on lom in kilometer!

2014-02-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, February 17, 2014 18:19:48 mechtly, eugene a wrote: The CGPM does not publish an official Guide for Pronouncing the Names and Multiples of SI Units. Nevertheless, I am confident that members of the CIPM (and CGPM) would reject an accent on the lom in the word kilometer. NBC

[USMA:53570] doctor

2014-02-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
I went to a doctor for the first time today. I stepped on the scale, which read about 100 too much. The thermometer read in °F. I'd like to persuade her to metricate. An obvious point is that BMI is metric; we were talking about BMI. What are some others? How hard is it to metricate a doctor's

[USMA:53404] Re: Running a poll on pro metric system slogans Please participate

2013-11-12 Thread Pierre Abbat
I forwarded it to several people. Two thought my computer had a virus or my address was spoofed. At least one voted. Pierre -- La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre. Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

[USMA:53382] Re: Paul Trusten on Dram Vials

2013-11-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, October 27, 2013 16:05:16 c...@traditio.com wrote: Paul-- You're right as always! Next time some anti-metricationist claims that people don't understand metric, only the customary system, say to that person: Tell me: How much is a dram when you measure out your cough syrup? I

[USMA:53383] Re: Fuel prices worldwide

2013-11-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 20:31:39 Michael Payne wrote: http://www.aa.co.za/content/World%20Wide%20Fuel%20List.pdf Interesting chart from the Automobile Association in South Africa which shows fuel prices worldwide, the local currency and the unit fuel is sold in. Interesting that fuel in

[USMA:53327] Optometrist

2013-10-15 Thread Pierre Abbat
I went to the optometrist yesterday. They asked my height and weight, which I gave in metric, which the gal entered without comment. The optometrist met me in the other room with the phoropter and inserted a measuring stick with some text on it into the phoropter to check my near vision. The

[USMA:53332] Please wait outside rice-flour noodle

2013-10-15 Thread Pierre Abbat
http://www.engrish.com/page/28/ http://www.engrish.com/wp-content/uploads//2013/05/please-wait-outside-rice- flour-noodle.jpg https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/米 米 means both rice and meter. Pierre -- La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre. Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

[USMA:53102] Re: Looking for 15 Meters Measuring Tapes

2013-07-26 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 13:57:26 cont...@metricpioneer.com wrote: Can anyone help this person find 16 measuring tapes capable of measuring up to 15 meters long? I would have them for sale at MetricPioneer.com if I knew where to buy them. I have a 50 m tape by Keson. It has a fold-out hook at

[USMA:53023] Re: Si and Agriculture examples

2013-07-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, July 01, 2013 18:58:41 Martin Vlietstra wrote: Top of my hip-bone to the ground is one metre. 1 m on me is up to my xiphoid. My pace is about 80cm – useful when I need to confirm the distance from the stumps to the boundary on a cricket field (OK, you guys might prefer to replace

[USMA:53016] Re: Si and Agriculture examples

2013-07-01 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 11:45:28 Henschel Mark wrote: Well, I can help you visualize the size of metric units. I think of a hectare as two football fields side by side. This is useless to me, as I don't watch football. Think of a kilometer as five city blocks. Or a railroad train 60

[USMA:52983] RE: Metric system education

2013-06-25 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, June 24, 2013 21:29:57 JohnAltounji wrote: Not true in physics classes, at least mine. Me too, my physics classroom had a 10 m distance marked to the diffraction grating, kilogram masses, and so on. Pierre -- lo ponse be lo mruli ku po'o cu ga'ezga roda lo ka dinko

[USMA:52980] Metric system education

2013-06-24 Thread Pierre Abbat
In a world where U.S. students are being left behind in important parts of the global job market, is nostalgia really a good guiding principle for education policy? Should we have kids walk two miles uphill both ways to school? The world is moving fast. There’s not much use for cursive

[USMA:52931] Re: (Off Topic) Paper size ratios

2013-06-14 Thread Pierre Abbat
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 sheet is one square meter (minus 51

[USMA:52859] RE: Metric Flag

2013-06-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday, June 03, 2013 22:11:36 Martin Vlietstra wrote: Very neat, but I would remove the text. Flags should not have text on them. Some flags do have text. There's a North Carolina flag with some dates, and a California flag with CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC, and Iranian and Saudi flags with

[USMA:52862] RE: Metric Flag

2013-06-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, June 04, 2013 07:59:20 Martin Vlietstra wrote: I know that some flags do have text - this seems to have been a trends in the 19th century. Historically the flag was an emblem that was recognisable without text. How about the quarter meridian divided into ten equal parts? Pierre

[USMA:52844] RE: Numerical Verification of lbf and lbm with 9.80665 in Newton's Second Law

2013-06-02 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, June 02, 2013 20:12:39 Martin Vlietstra wrote: Are you looking for an SI replacement for the unit gal? A gal is 1 cm/s². A gal is also a female. Neither is to be confused with AGAL, an organization promoting a Portuguese-like orthography for Galician. :) Pierre -- Don't buy a

[USMA:52832] Re: My Petition to 'WH' SI METRIC Response

2013-05-28 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday, May 25, 2013 23:15:40 a-bruie...@lycos.com wrote: Well I got thirty days and 10 people to reach with my Metric Response Petition http://wh.gov/hvyD I just sent an email about it, in English and Spanish, to twelve people, including some immigrants. Pierre -- li ze te'a ci

[USMA:52809] Re: FW: Petition Response: Supporting American Choices on Measurement

2013-05-24 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday, May 24, 2013 14:50:13 derryod...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm not quite sure what to make of this. It's a pathetic response if I may be honest I got it too. Sounds like they want to meter half way. Pierre -- The Black Garden on the Mountain is not on the Black Mountain.

[USMA:52772] Air blower flow rate

2013-05-15 Thread Pierre Abbat
http://www.ebmpapst.us/search.asp I just called this company and spoke with someone about the control signal. I'm designing circuit boards. It'll be a long time before I buy the fans to put in my house, but I'm going to use the same board (with different components) for the thermostat and the

[USMA:52686] Re: public thermometer

2013-04-23 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday, April 03, 2013 22:59:32 rek...@gmail.com wrote: The guy probably didn't finish his thought. I'm hoping you'll get good results. I passed by a couple of times last week; it hasn't been fixed. Pierre -- When a barnacle settles down, its brain disintegrates. Já não percebe nada,

[USMA:52668] Pickup truck dashboard

2013-04-11 Thread Pierre Abbat
I've pretty much decided on a Toyota Tacoma. The Ford's bed rim is about 1.43 m off the ground; my eyes are only 1.40 m. The other two I can see into. The Tacoma wins on features (fewer that I don't need) and price. Of the speedometer, though, the km/h scale is dark red on black and nearly

[USMA:52625] Unclear use of radiation units

2013-04-07 Thread Pierre Abbat
http://www.naturalnews.com/039828_Fukushima_radiation_media_blackout.html He gives a distance in only miles and messes up the capitalization, but that's not the point. The amount of radiation in food is given in becquerels per kilogram. Two paragraphs later, the maximum exposure is given in

[USMA:52605] Re: Fw: Pickup truck dashboard

2013-04-05 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 09:10:11 j...@frewston.plus.com wrote: Assuming you are in the US and looking for a US-spec model, try seeing if you can get a Canadian-spec dash. Speedometer will then be km/h predominant (with mph as a secondary scale, which should comply with US laws), and the

[USMA:52591] DMV was Date Format

2013-04-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, March 28, 2013 21:05:01 Stanislav Jakuba wrote: No, I never did. I mean, I do not want to irritate or confuse those kind of people. They have their orders. But I do use that Y-M-D everywhere unless there is a specific order outlined. I used the Y-M-D even in my passport renewal

[USMA:52593] public thermometer

2013-04-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
There's a public time and temperature display on a street I pass by fairly often. Lately I noticed that it would display 15 c (or whatever the temperature is) for a split second and go back to displaying the time. As I try to read the temperature whenever I pass by, I wrote a note: Could you

[USMA:52595] Re: public thermometer

2013-04-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday, April 03, 2013 22:59:32 rek...@gmail.com wrote: The guy probably didn't finish his thought. I'm hoping you'll get good results. I'll let you know. What's more important, is whom did you write? There are a few places here in Buffalo that used to have a Celsius display, but

[USMA:52582] Re: Question about number sense- is this the correct term?

2013-03-31 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday, March 29, 2013 13:36:01 Team Metric Info wrote: I am writing up a case study about a triage nurse who incorrectly recorded a toddler's weight as 25 kg, instead of 25 lbs (11.3kg). The weight error caused the toddler to receive 225 mg of clindamycin orally three times a day, instead

[USMA:52388] Re: Fw: Pickup truck dashboard

2013-02-26 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 09:10:11 j...@frewston.plus.com wrote: -Original Message- From: j...@frewston.plus.com Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:07 AM To: p...@bezitopo.org Subject: Re: [USMA:52385] Pickup truck dashboard Assuming you are in the US and looking for a US-spec

[USMA:52385] Pickup truck dashboard

2013-02-25 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm planning to get a pickup truck soon, probably new. If I want a metric dashboard, should I ask for a custom-made truck, find one on the lot and ask the dealer to change the dashboard, or what? Pierre -- When a barnacle settles down, its brain disintegrates. Já não percebe nada, já não

[USMA:52262] RE: current status of the Hawaii metric bill, H.B. 36

2013-01-25 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 17:24:11 derryod...@yahoo.com wrote: What's the situation with gas pumps? Isn't it legal to sell gas by the liter? Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't pumps covered under the UPLR? Just wondering. In Puerto Rico, gas is sold by the liter. Pierre -- loi mintu se

[USMA:52261] Re: 1.5 liter bottles

2013-01-25 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday, January 24, 2013 21:23:58 derryod...@yahoo.com wrote: Has anyone come across these bottle sizes before? I had seen plenty of 500 mL, 1 liter, 2L and 2.5 liter bottle sizes, but not 1.5 liters which in this case I'm referring to soda bottles. Just wondering if its a newer size or

[USMA:52196] 23andMe

2013-01-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
Anyone here on 23andMe? I just joined, and there is some discussion on the forum about a BMI calculator or estimator (which I can't access yet) not allowing one to enter one's height or mass in metric. There are also questions about how far one lives from a freeway, factory, or farm, in miles,

[USMA:51956] surveying test

2012-10-18 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm taking the test in a week and a few days. I've been working through the practice test. The only problem I've seen that has any metric units is one in which a thermometer, known to be a few degrees off, displays a temperature in Fahrenheit and they want to know what the true Celsius

[USMA:51913] RE: Fractals and SI

2012-09-14 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday, September 14, 2012 16:22:07 Metric Rules Info wrote: Thank you so much for responding! I am not a unit expert; therefore, please forgive me if my understands are incorrect. What would a 3-D model of a metric cube, going from very small to very large look like? And would not

[USMA:51882] Re: WEIGHING PEDIATRIC PATIENTS IN KILOGRAMS

2012-09-08 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday, September 07, 2012 16:31:20 John M. Steele wrote: Brief article about it: http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/JoannaAllhands/171358 Going metric: The Arizona Department of Health Services e-mailed a link about a movement to start weighing pediatric patients in kilograms. Seems

[USMA:51819] RE: FW: Is Algebra Necessary? And follow-up question

2012-08-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday 03 August 2012 15:38:26 mechtly, eugene a wrote: Paul, Congratulations on your skill as a master of manual long division! I never have occasion to use this skill. But how many times each day of work as a professional pharmacist do you actually use manual long division? I'll bet

[USMA:51809] tape measure

2012-07-31 Thread Pierre Abbat
I ordered from Duckworth and got what I wanted. Pierre -- Jews use a lunisolar calendar; Muslims use a solely lunar calendar.

[USMA:51765] metric tapes (Stanley)

2012-07-18 Thread Pierre Abbat
I asked about the 33-632, which is a 10 m tape listed on Stanley's website (stanleytools.com) without an order online button. On Tuesday 17 July 2012 10:48:54 you wrote: Unfortunately, the 33-632 has been discontinued and is no longer available.  The 33-428 is the suggested replacement. That

[USMA:51768] RE: metric tapes (Stanley)

2012-07-18 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday 18 July 2012 13:13:55 Martin Vlietstra wrote: Hi Pierre, If I remember correctly, you are Spanish/Latin American. If that is the case, why not go straight to the Spanish-language websites - Mexico (next door to the US if I remember my geography correctly :-) ), or Spain which

[USMA:51739] Dual-unit robber gauge

2012-07-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/photogallery/dumb-criminals.html?curPhoto=21 Not exactly a robber gauge, as it appears to be at a police station. It's in Ohio. Pierre -- La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre. Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.

[USMA:51741] Re: Dual-unit robber gauge

2012-07-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
A few pictures later, the police found someone carrying marijuana and a scale. They apparently considered the scale to be a drug paraphernalium. If cooking by mass were more common, would they have thought that? Pierre -- Jews use a lunisolar calendar; Muslims use a solely lunar calendar.

[USMA:51730] RE: BMI

2012-06-29 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday 28 June 2012 16:49:20 Carleton MacDonald wrote: Me, unfortunately, right now, 98.3 kg, 1.79 m: 98.3/1.79 = 54.9162 54.9162/1.79 = 30.679 BMI is 30.679. What's unfortunate about a BMI? Mine is 36 (81/1.5²) and that seems to be where my body likes it. You should state yours as

[USMA:51687] Where to get metric tapes?

2012-06-12 Thread Pierre Abbat
I searched the measuring tools section of Lowe's website and found no purely metric tapes, though there are some dual-unit tapes. Where can I get them? This may be the selection of one particular store, which is not close to where I am. I haven't visited a store in person and asked what they

[USMA:51695] Re: Where to get metric tapes?

2012-06-12 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 12:27:30 PM John M. Steele wrote: Metric tapes are made but are basically impossible to find at stores. You can find them on eBay (good brands like Stanley) or you can look for specialty tool stores online (not big box online sites like Lowe's or Home Depot). You

[USMA:51667] Re: Real-life examples of weight and volume

2012-06-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Saturday 02 June 2012 13:55:28 Paul Rittman wrote: I like to keep a list of real-life examples of units, so when I come across metric dimensions, I can recall (or state for others) a suitable comparison point. I have some decent ones for area (at least for someone who lives in southern

[USMA:51648] church magazine

2012-05-20 Thread Pierre Abbat
Yesterday some of us went out to distribute El Centinela, a magazine published by the church. (The name means The Sentinel; I don't know why it's spelled with 'c'.) A man handed me a few at a time and asked me to count; so we counted out a hundred of them. I then pointed at the stack and said

[USMA:51639] solar homes and the abuse of power

2012-05-13 Thread Pierre Abbat
I bought The New Solar Home to get some ideas for the house I'm designing. The book is full of square feet and acres and degrees Fahrenheit, but what irks me most about the units is sentences like these: p. 102: The most obvious green feature is the 33-kilowatt-per-hour rooftop photovoltaic

[USMA:51613] well guy and solar guy

2012-04-27 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm dealing with two contractors for my house: one who drills wells and one who designs and installs solar electric systems. The solar guy sent me spec sheets on solar panels, with dimensions in inches and millimeters. I took the dimensions and added some panels to the roof of my POV-Ray model,

[USMA:51546] Re: Anyone try to build a house in metric?

2012-03-18 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, March 18, 2012 08:28:11 a-bruie...@lycos.com wrote: I would love to build a metric home, but I would insist with 500 mm spaced studs (that falls right between 16 24 in.), and would have to order dry wall in meter lengths (but keep it 48 in wide so not to piss them off to much) from

[USMA:51535] Re: Hectare

2012-03-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 22:06:55 Paul Rittman wrote: What do people on this mailing list think of the hectare? I looked up a few posts that were several years old, and it appears that some were for, some against. At first sight, it appeared to me a very convenient form of land measurement,

[USMA:51536] Re: Feedback please- Metric Rules

2012-03-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday, March 16, 2012 11:44:12 Metric Rules Info wrote: Good Morning All: I am the Executive Director of a new nonprofit created to drive Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) curricula towards greater focus and coherence; we believe that no single change would

[USMA:51537] Anyone try to build a house in metric?

2012-03-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm designing my house, which I'm going to build hopefully this year, maybe the next, in western North Carolina. (It depends on how soon I get the money, and I have a few things to do before actually starting to build the house.) The plans are all in metric. I'll be directing the work. Right

[USMA:51469] Re: Calculating prices with grams and ounces

2012-02-13 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sunday, February 12, 2012 00:22:31 Paul Rittman wrote: The last few times I went shopping for breakfast cereal, I tried to compare the prices of various cereals on a per-ounce or –gram basis. Tonight, one cereal I bought was $2.84, and the package said it weighed 13 ounces or 368 grams.

[USMA:51384] Re: Naked decimal point problem at work

2011-12-31 Thread Pierre Abbat
Even a zero-zero is enough clothing for a decimal point. It doesn't have to get fancy and dress in a two-two. Pierre -- The Black Garden on the Mountain is not on the Black Mountain.

[USMA:51379] Re: ISMP President Michael Cohen on metric-only liquid medication measurement

2011-12-29 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday 29 December 2011 12:34:02 Michael Payne wrote: Specifically when entering information “For each medication prescribed, enter medication information and click the Add button”. The dosage unit drop down list does not list milligram symbol mg. It does however list Mega Giga, symbol

[USMA:51305] Re: 2012 AP Stylebook Suggestion Form Now Open

2011-11-08 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thursday 27 October 2011 18:33:22 Stanislav Jakuba wrote: Here is my contribution to the AP stylebook discussion. It may be a futile attemp as all the previous were. But one should keep trying, right? I am attaching it here for a feedback/criticism before sending it to AP. Stan Jakuba I

[USMA:51280] Re: Draft Metric Pocket Guide

2011-10-24 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday 10 October 2011 11:41:05 Saint Lucia Metrication Secretariat wrote: Dear Ezra Attached is a draft of our Metric Pocket Guide. This Guide is aimed at the ordinary man, hence we have endeavoured to make it as simple as possible. We should be grateful for review, comments and

[USMA:51192] World's biggest QR code

2011-10-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
The world's biggest QR code is a 22.05 meter square, not counting the white border, which is partly cut by reentrant corners, one of which has a tree in it. The finished product will cover most of the 10,000 square feet of space. It’ll be so big each of the pixels will be at least one square

[USMA:51108] Re: Calculations easy

2011-09-09 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday 09 September 2011 11:33:08 Stanislav Jakuba wrote: Note: This e-mail was apparently blocked as some of the earlier ones were. Here is a new attempt. In into, the first three letters are bold and the last isn't. but the units are kWh/h, Btu/hr, hp, V·A, and others but rarely the W

[USMA:51088] olive oil

2011-09-06 Thread Pierre Abbat
I was at Whole Foods today (I'm visiting my aunt in Berkeley) and passed the olive oil. I saw a round liter can of oil, which I'm not used to seeing. The unit price on the shelf is in dollars per liter. Below it was a half-liter bottle, with the unit price in dollars per ounce. Huh? Pierre --

[USMA:50944] Re: unit symbols

2011-08-05 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Friday 05 August 2011 00:44:28 Pierre Abbat wrote: I'm designing a solar house and found your site The site in question is backwoodssolar.com. Pierre -- lo ponse be lo mruli po'o cu ga'ezga roda lo ka dinko

[USMA:50942] unit symbols

2011-08-04 Thread Pierre Abbat
I'm designing a solar house and found your site while searching for batteries for solar systems. I noticed such phrases as 1 Module for 12v systems and 90 lumens with a 200 ma draw. Could you fix these please? The proper way to write them is 12 V, 90 lm, and 200 mA. Units that are named for a

[USMA:50887] RE: Almost metric recipe....

2011-07-19 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday 19 July 2011 14:11:07 Martin Vlietstra wrote: I should hope that this particular recipe is in metric - the choice of recipe was prompted by Bastile Day! Why 149 instead of 150 °C? If it's French, it's blue, white, and red. Pierre -- Don't buy a French car in Holland. It may be a

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