Adrian:
That was deliberate on Dennis's part. It illustrates an incorrect usage.
Dennis has now provided me with wording to clarify that. He's also provided
some additional corrections.
I'm glad to see people are looking at it. Jim Frysinger has also provided
feedback.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Adrian Jadic
> Sent: November 20, 2000 06:17
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: [USMA:9249] RE: Dennis Brownridge's Table of Non-SI Units
>
>
> I looked at the table and I observed also kilometer per hour. First, it is
> incorrectly abbreviated as kph, second I beleive it creates
> confusion to put
> it in a list of non-metric units as it is a metric unit.
> Maybe we should include something that would explain the slang
> denomination
> known as kph (kay pe aytch) instead. Or, maybe we should include
> a separate
> list of metric units that are incorrectly used, abbreviated, pronounced,
> etc.
> I don't know what the others think, but I would remove kilometer per hour
> from the list.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Potts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, 18 November, 2000 21:21
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:9243] Dennis Brownridge's Table of Non-SI Units
>
>
> Dennis Brownridge has provided me with his table of non-SI units in use in
> the United States, with permission to publish it on the SI Navigator site.
>
> I have converted it to HTML format and have replaced the unique characters
> for the degree symbol and for powers of 2 and 3 with
> superscripted ordinary
> characters (lower case o, 2, and 3). The table still contains the Greek mu
> character. I still haven't decided what to do about that (for the benefit,
> for example, of Macintosh users).
>
> If you simply go to the SI Navigator site (http://metric1.org), you'll see
> that there's an announcement and a link on the home page. The
> link is to the
> relevant entry on the Historical Document page. That entry, in turn,
> contains the button to load the new page.
>
> If you're too lazy to look at the introductory material, you can
> get to the
> new page directly by clicking on http://metric1.org/nonsi.htm.
> Like all the
> other SI Navigator pages, it contains the context-preservation JavaScript
> (which automatically reloads it with the site banner and the menu frame).
>
> If you want to look up a particular term, you may use your browser's Find
> command, once you have loaded the page, or you may go to the Search Entire
> Site section (via the main menu).
>
> I look forward to your comments.
>
> Bill Potts, CMS
> San Jose, CA
> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
>
>
