Madan, thank you for your support on this. I also like your idea of the informative labels (1 liter = 1000 ml, etc.) on consumer products. McDonald's restaraunts once had a metric educational campaign (I still have my "McMetrics" ruler and booklet around somewhere). Perhaps they could be persuaded to do something like this again. Please do post the results of your SI-prefix cheques; I'll do the same. -- Jason
----- Original Message ----- From: M R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 6:57 AM Subject: [USMA:15729] Fwd: Cheque-writing experiment? (Money and SI prefixes) > Hi Jim (James Wentworth) > > Explaining the terms like > kilo = 1000 > hecto = 100 > deka = 10 > deci = 0.1 > centi = 0.01 > milli = 0.001 > in a check is a fantastic idea. > > We can use the same in address labels also. > I wish the companies like Coco cola, Pepsi, etc also > show these terms like '1 liter = 1000 ml' in their > products to educate the people about SI units. > > Since I started writing the date in yyyy-mm-dd format, > I did not face any problem. So I will use the terms > like kilo and hecto dollars in the words column. > > Let us see what is going to happen. > > Thanks for your good idea > Madan > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com
