In a message dated 2000-10-25 21:21:29 Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > ... My doctor says I need to lose weight (from 106 down to 75)...
> As advocates of SI, we all know that weight is a force, and the
> unit of force is the newton.
> Are you really telling us that you mass is only about 11 kg
> (106 N/9.81 (m/s^2) rounded to 11 kg), and that your doctor advises
> reducing it to only about 8 kg?
> That is the accurate SI implication of your unitless statement!
> Gene.
>
>
Well, that's what the doctor told me ... I think what he said was: "You need
to lose weight, because your mass is too big."
Carleton
