Gene Mechtly wrote in USMA 8764 >On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> ... 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. This pedantry annoys me. Gene knows what is meant but he treats a statement in the vernacular as if it were a statement in technical jargon.
