I would do more then that. I would contact this person's supervisor
personally and complained of this instructors unprofessionalism. And if
you paid a fee, I'd demand my money back! Then inform them you would never
recommend their services again.
Out of curiosity, can you tell us what type of
METRICSUCKS.COM Message Board
1 fl. cup Crystal Geyser (Benton,
Tennessee)
Posted By: baycolony [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date:
Friday, 23 April 2004, at 3:35 p.m.
Johnny,
Regarding your photograph of April 5th @
8.14 a.m.
''Look at this Crystal Geyser label. It's
got 1 fl.cup
You should go there and post something pro-metric. Not reasons why metric
is better then FFU, but how much metric you encounter in your daily life.
What irks those people the most is finding out that metric is more used in
north America then they want their adherents to believe.
The info below
Johnny,
Regarding your photograph of April 5th @
8.14 a.m.
''Look at this Crystal Geyser label. It's
got 1 cup (240 mL). Up till now all 1 cups I've seen with metric
labels, have shown 236 mL. Why are metric weights
measures so erratic?''
Your assumption is
An AP article appeared in Today's newspaper
entitled:
Death toll in N. Korea blast set at 154
by Christopher Bodeen
Two paragraphs (excerpts) stick out:
The explosion destroyed buildings in a radius of hundreds
of yards, ripped the roofs of others and broke windows up to 2½ miles out, aid
http://www.tradepartners.gov.uk/text/bahamas/profile/02_keyfacts/localtime.shtml
UK Trade InvestmentExport Information
by
Marketor by
Sectoror by
SubjectHome / Bahamas / Key Facts /
Bahamas
Weights and measures
Imperial weights and measures are used, except for petroleum
products
When Tesco reverted to imperial,
what actually reverted? What is the actual
status of scale conversion in the areas where there was resistance? Is
compliance increasing? It would be nice if people who live in the UK
could keep us up-to-date onwhatis happening.
Euric
Imperial weights and
The industry must have bribed someone to keep them immune from metrication
- Original Message -
From: Terry Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 2004-05-12 15:31
Subject: [USMA:29764] RE: Calif. wineries go outside the bottle
Of
Is that anything like Kröver
Nacktarsch?
Kröver Nacktarsch
Eher nur wegen seines originellen Namens bekannter Wein aus
dem deutschen Anbaugebiet Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
(Bereich Bernkastel, Großlage Nacktarsch, Einzellage Kröv). Die ungewöhnliche
Bezeichnung hat ihren profanen Ursprung
try
http://www.randmcnally.com/rmc/directions/dirGetDirectionsInput.jsp?BV_SessionID=2103667259.1084486377BV_EngineID=adclhdehdkicgencfhjdfiidfji.0cmty=0
You can select kilometres as your units of
choice.
Euric
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Payne" [EMAIL
Over the past few months the cost of petrol in the US has
been approaching record levels. Prices in my region, depending on grade
range from 0.50 $/L to 0.60 $/L an increase of 0.10 $/L compared to a few
moths ago. Has the prices been increasing outside the US too? I was
wondering if the
Euric,
I call on your superior advice yet again (sorry about this).
My local health authority is doing a "Swim a mile" competition. I need to
contact them to tell them that "The UK is a metric country" and inform them that
"only old people know imperial".
I should tell them to change the
Euric, I need your "help".
I got measured up for my Wedding on Saturday, you know for clothes (not what
you were thinking about).
It was really really bad because he said inches a lot and used a tape with
inches on but Britain is a "metric country". What made it worse is that he was
Euric,
I need your help.
I was watching a film called "the core" on Saturday night.
It mentioned loads of measurements based on Football Fans that we don't use
in the UK "because we are a metric country".
What happens in Australia with films like this?
Realising that no-one would know
Euric - I need your "help" again.
We are planning on spending some of our honeymoon in
the Bahamas in October.
However when I look at marvellous balanced unbiased
sites like the US metrication Association it complains that only three
countries use the imperial system. I think
Euric,
Can you advise me on an issue we have here in the UK.
There is this campaign going on for a charity "Run a mile" thing.
It's all over the papers and the BBC keeps going on about it.
You can see it here:
http://www.sportrelief.com/
Is there anything we can do to make them say
:29725] Re: Swim a mile
Euric? What the heck is this crap you keep forwarding to the list?
My god manstop!
At 14:50 2004-05-10, MightyChimp wrote:
Euric,
I call on your superior advice yet again (sorry about this).
My local health authority is doing a Swim a mile competition. I need
They are from the metricsucks site. I was hoping
some of you would come up with some clever responses that I could repost
back.
Euric
- Original Message -
From:
Bill
Potts
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Monday, 2004-05-10 17:56
Subject: [USMA:29726] RE: Swim a
it?
- Original Message -
From:
MightyChimp
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Monday, 2004-05-10 17:50
Subject: [USMA:29721] Swim a mile
Euric,
I call on your superior advice yet again (sorry about this).
My local health authority is doing a "Swim a mile" competiti
of
their economy is metric. In short, the Bahamas is not an impressive example of
FFU usage.
- Original Message -
From:
MightyChimp
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Monday, 2004-05-10 17:49
Subject: [USMA:29720] honeymoon in the
Bahamas
Euric - I need your "help&q
-
From:
MightyChimp
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Monday, 2004-05-10 17:51
Subject: [USMA:29722] Run a mile
Euric,
Can you advise me on an issue we have here in the UK.
There is this campaign going on for a charity "Run a mile" thing.
It's all over
http://flash.trojangames.co.uk/tgames/movies/movie2.html
, MightyChimp at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Over the past few months the cost of petrol in the US has been approaching
record levels. Prices in my region, depending on grade range from 0.50
$/L to
0.60 $/L an increase of 0.10 $/L compared to a few moths ago. Has the
prices
been increasing outside
I found your story interesting. I think there is a
viewpoint in the English speaking US and UKthat despite the metric system
being used everywhere (most people think it is only used in Europe), all people
understand and use FFU. Part of the BWMA propaganda is that one can still
find FFU
I'm curious to know something about the
"understanding" of units world-wide. Does anyone here have either
knowledge, experience or feeling as to whether more people in metric countries
understand and have a working knowledge or feel for FFU or more people in
FFU-land have the same towards
Naughtin is the editor of the free online newsletter, 'Metrication
matters'. You can subscribe by sending an email containing the words
subscribe Metrication matters to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
on 2004-05-09 04.10, MightyChimp at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm curious to know something about
Actually, the UK should be the next to go. It is one of the last changes
needed to take place before the UK can be considered a completely metric
country.
Euric.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 2004-05-06 16:23
Is that true in internationalEnglish language editions?
Euric
- Original Message -
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 2004-05-06 00:59
Subject: Re: [USMA:29676] Re: National
Geographic, Mars
As far as I know they don't. In every foreign
I wonder if the anti-metric letter came from a member of
one of those anti-metric groups like the BWMA. The average reader wouldn't
bother to write. Those pro and opposed to metric are the most likely to
write. Can you tell us what you and the opposer said?
Euric
- Original Message
Why do you feel Canada is mostly imperial?
What role does imperial play? Do you see a metric consumer economy as
being unimportant when making a determination as to whether Canada is metric or
not?
Out of curiosity, how do Canadians adopt to metric
speed and distance measurements in
Title: Message
I think this 100 % related to metric. Metric is the
defacto language of all science. To have a comprehension of scientific
laws and data, one has to be confident in and have a working knowledge of SI
units. Growing up in the non-SI USA handicaps Americansfrom having a
- Original Message -
From: Roy Berko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Joan Aitken [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 2004-04-30 09:37
Subject: Dr. Laura strikes again and gets it back
On her radio show recently, Dr Laura Schlesinger
said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew,
homosexuality is an
- Original Message -
From: BigChimp
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Monday, 2004-05-03 18:13
Subject: Burma and Liberia
I think Rowlett answers the Burma-Liberia question on metrication very
well.
Euric
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/
"What countries besides the U.S.
I never realisedthat there may
be a minimum unit of both time and length.I wonder if this could be
apossible means to define the metre and the second.
planck length
a unit of distance representing the scale at which gravity, and perhaps
space itself, becomes quantized (discrete) rather
Speaking of the "old
fogey" factor of a previous post, this guy wins first prize.
Euric
If you want to play with meter and liter's go to Canada or
almostanywhere else but this not anywhere else this is here and I don't
carewhat the world does, I don't care how many people think our system
not muddy the conversion waters with centilitres, decilitres,
dekalitres and hectolitres, so the transition was straightforward and
complete.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin LCAMS
Geelong, Australia
--
on 2004-05-15 12.04, MightyChimp at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm just curious about something
Is petrol sold by the gallon or by the litre in Ireland?
When we purchase something by certain units or work with out hands in
certain units, we develop a feel for those units. The Irish media may
continue to speak in FFU, but that does not often translate into an
understanding of those units.
SQUIDs can detect a change in this field of only 50 billionths of a
micro-gauss (5 x 10-14 gauss), which equates to a change of the gyroscope's
angle of 0.0001 arcseconds.
The above sentence is the epitome of ignorance. First of all, the unit
gauss is deprecated and magnetic flux density should
You need to write to them and ask them what all of this will mean come
September when all speed limits on Irish roads are not only metricated, but
converted to rounded metric values.
It sure would be foolish for someone to erect new signs now, only to have
them changed again in a few months.
I
Don't hold your breath.
- Original Message -
From: Carter, Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 2004-04-27 08:30
Subject: [USMA:29638] RE: Gravity Probe B article
Excellent response Bill! I will be very interested to see their reply.
So, if I understand this response correctly,
"billionths of a micro-gauss" is more understandable then teslas. What
planet is this guy from?
Euric
- Original Message -
From:
Bill
Hooper
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Tuesday, 2004-04-27 12:13
Subject:
I still don't understand how billionths of a microgauss is any more
understandable to the main audience which is American than the tesla. Am
I missing something here?
The other false hood is the belief that Americans do in fact understand FFU.
I'd bet the people who would read his articles would
- Original Message -
From:
john
mercer
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Wednesday, 2004-05-05 00:25
Subject: [USMA:29683] metric mess in
Canada
Hello okay mighty chimp i will tell you how much
imperial is still used in Canada. All building supplys are
This page looks similar to info found in the CIA
handbook.
Here is something of interest and may help explain why
Burma is still considered a non-metric country:
Burma is data poor, and official
statistics are often dated and inaccurate. Published estimates of Burma's
foreign trade are
claim to
be 'confused' and then expect mainland Europeans to
understand and use their units for their benefit (see
USMA 29703- a Tale by a Colleague). Much of this 'confusion'
is deliberate and with purpose anyway.
Han - Original Message
- From: MightyChimp
mail
I posted the contents of this posting to the metricsucks site (leaving off
the names to protect the privacy of the poster) and received the following
responses from two members of the BWMA:
#1:
My gas is cu ft and this is entered as such on the bill.
The electricity is kwH (I think)
My water is
Because in our free market economy we use units to create deception. The
best example given is the preferred pricing per pound because the pound
price appears cheaper.
Horsepower is preferred over kilowatts because horsepower numbers are larger
and give the illusion of having more power.
A 15
What kills me is when I read specs by people who should know better that a
certain generator can produce xxx MW per day. How many have seen this
before?
Euric
- Original Message -
From: Terry Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday,
Maybe members of the BWMA or the American equivalent scour the site for
metric only and add FFU for spite.
- Original Message -
From: Terry Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 2004-05-18 15:09
Subject: [USMA:29844] RE: Wikipedia
Of
What was the entry about? Where can it be found?
Did you remove the FFU?
Euric
- Original Message -
From: Stephen Gallagher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 2004-05-18 11:28
Subject: [USMA:29839] Wikipedia
Last week, I made an entry on
That makes too much logical sense. Therefore forget it!
The object of communication is not to follow logical patterns but to see how
confusing something can be made.
Also, with Americans being barely literate and the rule makers being very
anal about the use of the -re ending one can not hope
Which the anti-metric types like because it makes metric look messed up. Or
one can say metric is not used everywhere completely and FFU (hours are
considered FFU) still is preferred over metric.
Euric
- Original Message -
From: Pat Naughtin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric
I haven't, but maybe I should start.
Euric
- Original Message -
From: Terry Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 2004-05-19 04:33
Subject: [USMA:29861] RE: Wikipedia
From: MightyChimp
Maybe members of the BWMA or the American
Can anyone from the UK verify the statement made below? Is FFU now more
popular in the UK then in the '70s.?
Euric
In the 70's there was a strong opinion in favour of metric in the UK. Ever
since imperial has gained and gained in preference. This is why legal threats
can only force
How often does gallon pricing for petrol appear in the UK
press?
I did some edits to the floppy and vinyl records pages. How will I know
if someone is complaining?
Euric
- Original Message -
From: Terry Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 2004-05-19 11:55
Subject: [USMA:29865] RE: Wikipedia
What can be done to get a change from BTU to joule. If I'm not mistaken,
the kilojoule and the BTU are almost the same value. So there should only
be a minor difference in the amounts shown, yes?
Euric
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL
: Wikipedia
From: MightyChimp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I did some edits to the floppy and vinyl records pages.
How will I know if someone is complaining?
You have already had a response. Somebody did not like what you did. They
have undone a lot of your editing already. Look at the 'floppy' page
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Sent: Wednesday, 2004-05-19 12:41
Subject: [USMA:29868] RE: Wikipedia
From: MightyChimp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I did some edits to the floppy and vinyl records pages.
How will I know if someone is complaining?
You have already had a response. Somebody did not like what you did
When is a country considered a metric country? When
it officially makes a declaration to do so, or when it completes a certain
amount of changes? Anti-metric forces in the UK claim the UK is not a
metric country at all because the vast majority use FFU in daily conversations
and usage. Is
Can anyone tell me if the following units are still in use
anywhere?
TME (Technische Mass Einheit) also known as the metric
slug
Glug = 0.1 TME
metric horsepower.
Check my edits, if you see any errors, then feel free to
fix them. If you see anything I edited that you would have done
differently, let me know or make the changes yourself. I wonder if someone
can reverse an edit if someone edited after without destroying subsequent
edits.
Serviette must be the international word as it is the same in German and
French.
I knew right away what it meant and saw no need to make a translation to
napkin. I have the feeling that the world would adjust to using the word
napkin a lot more readily then to get an American to adopt to, use or
I tried it in XP and it would not let me change the 3-1/2 Floppy to 90 mm
Floppy, as there may be to many characters, so I just left it as floppy
Euric
- Original Message -
From: Nat Hager III [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, 2004-05-22
Is there someway you can convince they to reinstate this paragraph that I
had in there. At least in part or full.
I'd like to see:
the ISO/IEC references of the 2-nd paragraph,
the standard dimensions per the ISO/IEC spec being 94 mm x 90 mm x 3.3 mm
and the disk being 86 mm.
Since you have
Maybe so, but American furnaces don't. American furnaces just heat the air
and a fan blows it through the house. No radiators or boilers, at least in
newer homes. People who have had radiator heat say it is too hot.
Also, the US has not caught on to the more efficient demand water heating
There was one person on the bridge and the ship was sailing on the
automatic pilot, all on its own!
Han
- Original Message -
From:
MightyChimp
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Wednesday, 2004-05-19 23:28
Subject: [USMA:29877] When is a country
Ask those very same people about buying gasoline in
litres, hearing metric weather forecasts, buying deli items in grams and
kilograms (andI mean having to ask for amounts in metric), driving down
metric signed roads, etc. and see how many of those "metricated" people
would agree to further
ot a "base 12 system" There is a confusion between base
and conversion factor. This sentence needs to be modified to remove the
reference to a base.
Euric
- Original Message -
From: "MightyChimp" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
- Original Message -
From: Stephen Gallagher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, 2004-05-23 10:03
Subject: [USMA:29921] Metrication
Since Wikipedia has been a topic of conversation lately, can some
of you take a look at its article on
General Motors started their metrication in 1973 and completed it about 10
years later. Actually, they never really converted in the traditional
sense. They never metricated existing models. As they designed newer
models, they did so in metric. As they had to retool anyway, the new
tooling was
You have? Well, can you elaborate on your experience?
Euric
- Original Message -
From: Michael Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, 2004-05-23 13:31
Subject: [USMA:29925] RE: Metrication
Although Liberia and Myanmar have not officially
s displayed on store shelves.
This change is necessary to allow US companies to
have a single label for worldwide consumers to avoid the cost of labeling
identical products differently.
Stan Doore
- Original Message -----
From:
MightyChimp
To: U.S. Metric A
In what respect is reversion going on? Does someone have a valid example
of some aspect of the automobile of today that was once metric, but is now
FFU? People can say a lot, but backing it up with facts and examples is
where the truth is revealed. You may find those who insist it is happening
- Original Message -
From:
john
mercer
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Sunday, 2004-05-23 15:32
Subject: [USMA:29932] Briggs and
Stratton
Hello Chimp and all. The engine that Brigs
and Stratton converted from standard to metric fasteners is built in the
Is the unit "bel' a part of SI or one of the units
accepted along with SI?
Euric
Sky Bus is the solution which is presented
by the Konkan Railway Corporation India for world community which does not
demand precious urban space but actually adds, can carry both commuters ( 3
to 16 per hour capacity)and containers(720 per hour) very economically at
high speeds of
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskette
I made some changes to the German page and they seem to be holding.
Please keep checking on this page and let me know if anyone notices a
reversion. I'll be checking too. Also if anyone else might want to make
edits to the other languages to see if they
16:57, MightyChimp wrote:
Is the unit bel' a part of SI or one of the units accepted along with
SI?
Euric
--
James R. Frysinger
Lifetime Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist
Senior Member, IEEE
http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office:
Physics
- Original Message -
From:
john
mercer
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Sunday, 2004-05-23 16:15
Subject: [USMA:29936] Briggs and
Stratton
Hello Mighty Chimp. What country do you
live in.
I live in the US
Briggs have exported their engines
will use metric or the previous local units. Definitely not
US Customary.
Michael Payne
[Original Message]
From: MightyChimp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23/5/04 14:07:34
Subject: Re: [USMA:29925] RE: Metrication
You have
Michael Moore's controversial polemic Fahrenheit 9/11 became the first
documentary for nearly 50 years to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
Is that not ironic?
Nigela,
Regarding your question of May 1st @ 6.30 p.m.
''How much spinning spins sufficient spun for a spindle to safely serve a
spinster to supply standard spin to tie the knot.''
Depends whether she's hitching up her skirt jumping the broomstick in
linen or cotton.
1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x
planned and carried out by the government
itself to trick the population into backing the war in Afghanistan and
Iraq.
Euric
- Original Message -
From:
MightyChimp
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Sunday, 2004-05-23 22:12
Subject: [USMA:29953] Fahrenheit wins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFU
When I did a search for FFU, it redirected to US Customary
units.
Here is the first paragraph:
U.S. customary units
(Redirected from FFU)
[edit]The
U.S. customary units (more commonly known in the US as
English units and sometimes refered to as Fred
http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/measurement/faq/print-zero-fahrenheit.shtml
Why isn't 0°F the lowest possible temperature
for a salt/ice/water mixture?
In your Web page Why
can adding salt to ice water make the ice melt slower? it says that "A
mixture of rock salt,
Same mentality that causes Canadian produce sellers to price things by the
pound, because a pound is smaller than a kilogram so the price appears
lower.
I've seen Canadian deli counters selling strictly by the 100 g for the same
reason. It can work both ways.
Three Silly Reasons for Not Adopting the Metric System
The following are three arguments which I've actually heard people put
forward against the U.S. completing conversion to the metric system.
1. The Imperial system is based on natural proportions of the human
body (1
Imperial system is not for
me
May 6 2004
I GREATLY
Journey of a Thousand
Steps
It was Harold Wilson's government that decided that Britain would join
the rest of Europe in using both decimal currency and the metric system.
That was in 1964. Today there is still strong resistance to metrication and
all things continental.
Click on all of the languages and then on the photo
gallery. You will note, with the exception of German, French, Italian and
Japanese, the descriptions under the photos are in the format: FFU
[metric]. In the cases where there is dual units the speed unit symbol
in metric is always kph
units for current and
tension.
And the BWMA. enough said.
Han
- Original Message -
From: Bill Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 2004-05-18 1:28
Subject: [USMA:29827] Re: R]EADIN
On 2004 May 17 , at 6:38 PM, MightyChimp
-- specifically 50 m as the size. I received a somewhat
snotty reply
that yes but that is the was it is. They said that when they created new
packaging, they
would consider changing their usage. Some 3 or so years later, they did, on
some of their
packages, change the usage.
Marion Moon
MightyChimp [EMAIL
I got the same feeling when I read it too. I felt he was more upset with
the exactness of conversion that some people seem to do. A thousand yard
stare could just as well been a 1000 m stare and not lost a hint of the
meaning. At least he knew that the 1 mile per gallon was the US gallon and
METRICSUCKS.COM Message Board
The Foot-Ounce-Ouncedal
System
Posted By: Bryan Ashley James Parry [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date:
Sunday, 30 May 2004, at 1:14 p.m.
This system does not actually exist, but it *IS* a
highly compelling implied system.
That is to say, all of the
I don't think anti-metric (or most common) people do a lot of calculations
or even conversions within FFU. Thus, the simplicity of SI argument is lost
on them. To many however, SI means they have to (not really have to, but
insist on doing) convert from SI back to FFU. They make zero effort to
anywhere.
Say itoften enough and it will.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of MightyChimp
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 18:23
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA
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From: Terry Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 2004-05-31 09:45
Subject: [USMA:30019] wikipedia
Of MightyChimp
Euric,
Have you given up on Wikipedia because you got involved in battles over a
few pages? I rarely get my edits undone because
Thanks! I try it and see if the bird will fly.
Euric
- Original Message -
From: Terry Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 2004-05-31 10:23
Subject: [USMA:30021] Re: wikipedia
Of MightyChimp
Can you give me some articles that need
Rowlett defines foot-candle as such:
footcandle (fc or ftc)
a traditional unit of illuminance or illumination, defined as the
illuminance received by a surface at a distance of one foot from a source
of intensity one international candle. The "international candle" was the
predecessor of
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