Justin,
Please mail (or FAX) your list of deviations from SI to the
Editors of The World Factbook so that they know than more of their readers
are aware of the deviations. To their credit, they already use only
metric units *without* non-metric values in parentheses; even though
the symbols are not always correct SI.
Gene.
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Justin JIH wrote:
> ...
> As I read E-Conflict World Encyclopedia at http://www.emulateme.com/ , nearly
>everything is
> copied from the CIA World Factbook. I found E-Conflict before CIA Factbook and I am
>always
> satisfactory on metric usage. However, airport runway lengths are of odd ranges of
>914 m, 1524 m,
> 2438 m, and 3047 m in italic (should be in Roman type). They appear to be 3000 ft,
>5000 ft, 8000
> ft, and 10000 ft. Use of "sq km" for square kilometers looks odd as well.
>
> Also, use of commas (.) to separate groups of 3 digits is not international. So
>these commas
> should be replaced by thin spaces, though periods (.) for decimal points may stay as
>it is
> recognized by the ISO.
> ...
