This just proves how natural SI units are; they simply fade into the page! Duncan -----Original Message----- From: Ma Be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: July 9, 2001 11:15 Subject: [USMA:14245] Re: Fiber optic article metric???... >On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 10:56:29 > Nat Hager III wrote: >>Missed the "thousands of miles" Marcus, but did note: >> >>"Mr. Fajardo produced a nine-centimeter segment of hollow fiber..." >> >>"Corning was obtaining promising results from five-meter samples..." >> >>"The new geometric design has enabled Corning to make hollow fiber tens of >>meters long..." >> >>Nat >... >Darn it! Indeed, Nat. You're right. Gee, I should have been more careful. But, what happened was that I was reading this thing and about half-way I just "glanced" over the rest of the document and couldn't visually identify any measurement *figures* anywhere. > >Actually this may perhaps have been very clever on their part and perhaps an interesting idea on the part of these guys (but I don't know if this was done on purpose!...) when it comes to put metric in articles. Do it "in full" as they've done here and there will be a huge chance that people may simply miss them altogether, like I did! ;-) > >Another "tactic" was the one highlighted by another colleague here that shared that Olympic games article where the number was there but not the unit. > >Gee, to what degree these folks from the press go to avoid metric or do it in such a way that there will be a huge chance that these will be "missed"!... :-( > >Thanks for setting me straight, Nat, and sorry for my blunder. > >Marcus > > >Get 250 color business cards for FREE! >http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/ >
