you are talking nonsense! I can get the units dic from the library and prove it!
dont mess with me! :D >From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:16601] RE: Metric in the news >Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:54:28 -0800 > >Nonsense. The German for square kilometer is Quadratkilometer. > >"n Kilometer Quadrat" has the same meaning as the English "n-kilometer >square." The "square" part of the expression is neither a unit of measure >nor a component of a unit of measure. It is simply descriptive. The unit >"kilometer" is used in defining the length of a side of that square. Thus, >a >four kilometer square (or vier Kilometer Quadrat) has an area of 16 square >kilometers (16 Quadratkilometer). > >Note that, absent a value (stated or implied), both kilometer square and >Kilometer Quadrat are meaningless (neither being a unit). > >Bill Potts, CMS >Roseville, CA >http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of Wizard of OS >Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 06:15 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:16592] RE: Metric in the news > > >bill I guess there is a misunderstanding > >i.e. in german the therm for km� is Kilometerquadrat, which is valid for >more than 20 years now. > >a four kilometer square is 4 km� I presume > >deriving from the that the therm square kilometer is wrong at all, I have >never seen �km!!! > > > >From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: [USMA:16590] RE: Metric in the news > >Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 03:49:20 -0800 > > > >Interestingly, on CNN, Christiane Amanpour was describing the area being > >bombed as a four kilometer square. The news readers were referring to the > >same area as one and a half square miles -- an unnecessary and completely > >incorrect conversion. > > > >A four kilometer square is 16 square kilometers, or approximately 6 >square > >miles. > > > >Bill Potts, CMS > >Roseville, CA > >http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > >Behalf Of kilopascal > >Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 15:55 > >To: U.S. Metric Association > >Subject: [USMA:16585] Metric in the news > > > > > >2001-12-10 > > > >This Morning on the NBC today show, a soldier from the Afghan conflict >was > >interviewed. He was one of the soldiers injured in the friendly fire > >attack > >that killed 3 of his comrades. > > > >Twice he gave distances and both times they were in kilometres > >(kill-lom-eters). Not once did he say an FFU term. Also, on the evening > >news on NBC, the reporter in Afghanistan near Tora Bora also reported >using > >"hundreds of metres" when describing bin Laden's possible hiding place. > > > >Also he stated that the deaths were the results of wrong co-ordinates > >radioed to the plane overhead as to where to drop the bomb. I wonder if > >someone made a metric/English conversion error. Will we ever know, or >will > >it be hushed up? Can you see the headlines: > > > >"AMERICAN SOLDIERS DIE IN VAIN BECAUSE OF ENGLISH/METRIC SYSTEM MISTAKE". > >Enough of these headlines might get the ball rolling. > > > >John > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Downloaden Sie MSN Explorer kostenlos unter http://explorer.msn.de/intl.asp > _________________________________________________________________ Werden Sie Mitglied bei MSN Hotmail, dem gr��ten E-Mail-Service der Welt. http://www.hotmail.com/de
