2000-11-22
I know. I did it this way on purpose to see if anyone would notice. And I
see someone did. Actually if I can't use the correct super-scripted "3", I
prefer the "^3", even if some say it is not a correct method. I don't see
why it isn't, as it looks better.
John
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Sent: Wednesday, 2000-11-22 12:49
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Subject: [USMA:9297] RE: World Records
John:
150 kL?
That should be expressed as 150 m3. CGPM puts kiloliter very firmly in the
"do not use" category.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of kilopascal
> Sent: November 22, 2000 09:31
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:9296] World Records
>
>
> 2000-11-22
>
> The highest temperature in the shade ever recorded was 58�C at
Al�Aziziyah
> in the Sahara Desert, Libya, on 1922-09-13.
>
> The highest speed at which expelled particles of a sneeze have ever been
> measured to travel is 167 km/h.
>
> Hicham El Guerrouj (Morocco) set the record for the fastest men's
> 1500 m on
> 1998-07-14 in Rome, Italy, with a time of 3 min 26 s. He also holds the
> record for the mile and 2000 m.
>
> The largest cookie ever made was a giant chocolate chip snack with a
> diameter of 24.9 m, and an area of 487.15 m�, made by Cookie Time,
> Christchurch, New Zealand, on 1996-04-02.
>
> Food technologists, in conjunction with Southpower and the fire
> department,
> worked for six months on the colossal cookie project. The
> ingredients of the
> 12.9-tonne-snack included 4.5 tonnes of flour, 2 tonnes of butter, 24,000
> eggs, 2.5 tonnes of chocolate, and enough sugar for 600,000 cups
> (150 kL)of
> tea. This cookie was more than twice the size of the previous
> record. It was
> baked for 2.5 hours in a specially built gas oven 28 m in
> diameter, situated
> in a field behind the Cookie Time factory. The baked cookie was
> chopped into
> 47,000 pieces, using pizza cutters. The pieces were sold to raise
> money for
> Christchurch schools.
>
> The largest pizza ever baked measured 37.4 m in diameter. It was made at
> Norwood Hypermarket, Norwood, South Africa, on 1990-12-08.
>
> The Norwood pizza�s diameter was 3.5 m larger than the previous
> world record
> set by Pizza Hut, Singapore, in June 1990, which stood at 33.9 m. Norwood
> Hypermarket management, staff, suppliers, companies, and
> organizations were
> all involved in creating the world�s largest pizza. The ingredients were
> 4500 kg flour, 90 kg salt, 90 kg yeast, 2925 liters water, 1800
kg cheese,
> 900 kg tomato puree, 900 kg chopped tomatoes, 800 kg mushrooms,
9 kg mixed
> herbs, 180 kg margarine. Preparation and cooking took about 39
hours. Once
> cooked, the pizza was cut by the Mayor of Johannesburg, and
> slices were sold
> to the public to raise funds for charity. The main beneficiary of the
> proceeds was St. Marks College in Lebowa.
>
> The largest-ever electrical current was achieved by scientists at
> Oak Ridge
> National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA, in April 1996. They sent a
current of
> 20 GA/m� down a superconducting wire.
>
>
>
> Note: FFU edited out and incorrect SI usage corrected.
>
>
> John
>
>
