On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:23:56 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I also feel the use of prefixes with "liters (litres)" and "ares" is >justified by convenience and common usage: again, it does not threaten the >criterion of "remaining consistent, decimal, and universal". To put it >another way, if milliters should be replaced by cubic centimeters always, >then shouldn't liters give way to cubic decimeters always? Back in the late 60s when I started grammar school our lab equipment was marked in 'cc'. As SI teaching progressed, these were changed to cm�. Some of our text books even switched to dm� instead of litres. I regretted the switch back to 'ml', as it wasn't 'pure SI'. -- Chris KEENAN UK Metrication: http://www.metric.org.uk/ UK Correspondent, US Metric Association
