On 20 Nov 2000, at 9:10, Gregory Peterson wrote:
> According to Canadian legislation firewood can only be sold by
the "cord", or the "cubic metre and it's multiples". Not many people
know what a cord of wood is. Not many people know/remember
that a cubic decimetre equals one litre, either, unfortunately. These
SI units are just not used frequently enough for the "un-obsessed"
to recall the simple beauty of the system's relationships. :)
FIY: I do not know in in other places is thge same, baut in Italy
firewood is sold by volume wholesale , and by mass retali.
The reason is that wholesale is done in the woods, where firewoot
is piled so a size measurement is easir, while retalis is usually by
carloads, where is easier to weight it.
Leonardo Boselli
nucleo informatico e telematico
Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile
Universita` di Firenze
V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze
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http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo
