Jim: That's also linked from SI Navigator.
Unfortunately, it only defines the basic Quadratmeter (which indicates, at least, that "quadrat" is the first part of the unit name, not the last part). The site of the Universitat von Kiel (which is very authoritative) says: "Bei der Flachenbetrachtung finden wir als Basiseinheit wieder eine Komponente des Meters, den Quadratmeter und seine Vielfachen. Wo zwischen Meter und Kilometer eine gro?e Lucke klafft, gibt es zwischen Quadratmeter und Quadratkilometer gewisse Einheiten, die das Rechnen etwas vereinfachen:" The page on which this appears is at: http://www.techfak.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/mw1_ge/kap_2/basics/flaechen.html Note to Wizard: Do the Google search on Quadratkilometer and Kilometerquadrat. The Quadradkilometer search yields an enormous number of references, all of which use the word as I defined it. The Kilometerquadrat references (of which there are much fewer) typically have information on arbitrary division of maps into squares with a side length of 1 kilometer, which corresponds to the way I defined Kilometerquadrat. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James R. Frysinger Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 04:51 To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:16612] RE: Metric in the news Wiz, here is a reference that is obviously authoritative. This is located at the web site of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt at http://www.ptb.de/de/publikationen/_download.html >From there, open the pdf document, "Die gesetzlichen Einheiten in Deutschland", linked at the bottom of the page. Then look at the bottom of page 4 (of the 10 pages in that document). I got there from my "SI in German" page at http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj/SI_german.htm which is similar to my "SI in German" page at http://www.metricmethods.com/SI_german.html At those two sites are similar pages in other languages, including Russian, which might also interest you. Jim Wizard of OS wrote: > > 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. .... -- Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!" James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/ 10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: 843.225.6789
