great link, thx I hope the will do as germany as well!
what more I found on the site linked: The Bottom Line Because of their many eccentricities, English customary units clearly are more cumbersome to use than metric units in trade and in science. As metrication proceeds, they are less and less in use. On the other hand, these traditional units are rich in cultural significance. We can trace their long histories in their names and relationships. We should not forget them, and it is unlikely that we will, even when Britain and America complete their slow conversion to the metric system. The American economy of the 22nd Century may be completely metric, but probably Americans will still call 30 centimeters a "foot" and 1600 meters a "mile." Read the last sentence! I have been born in the wrong century! :-) but I dislike the word "maybe" >From: J JIH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:15774] Large numbers and SI vs. currencies >Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 06:14:36 -0700 (PDT) > >See this page at http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/large.html and both >European and "American" >definitions of a billion are of French origin. In practice, anything over >trillion is rarely used. > >Use SI prefixes and there is no confusion. However, SI prefixes are not >known to be used in >finance, nor are there any use of prefixed ISO 4217 codes at >http://www.bsi-global.com/Technical+Information/Publications/_Publications/tig90.xalter > >known, >such as GUSD for 10^9 US Dollars and TUSD for 10^12 US Dollars. > >The SI deals with physical units, not currencies. The BIPM has not >officially endorsed use of SI >prefixes for currency codes, whether ISO 4217 or "local" codes. > >J JIH > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. >http://personals.yahoo.com > _________________________________________________________________ Downloaden Sie MSN Explorer kostenlos unter http://explorer.msn.de/intl.asp
