Carleton reported in USMA 10728 two disgusting pieces of boiler plate from AOL. The only sentence that dealt with Carleton's letter was >> P.S. The abbreviation for Kilometers Per Hour is KPH and not Km/H...this is and it was wrong, as Carleton pointed out. >More from AOL. There may be an answer in here, but I can't find it. . Carleton also asked: >I'm not sure what is meant by "engineering units" but in this case it appears >that the international metric authority governs. The standard atmosphere is defined as 101 325 Pa. Some floating point computer systems treat this 1,013 25 E+5 Pa, other systems would treat it as 0.101 325 E+6. Engineering notation would be 101.325 E+3 I think one could summarize that engineering measurements should be expressed in ..., um, mm, m, km, Mm, ...so that the integral part of a number lies between 0 and 999, both limits included. That precludes the use of cm, dm, dam, and hm. Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
