At 18:22 -0500 02/02/3, James R. Frysinger wrote: >* caveat: I refused -- as an exercise -- to let myself use a dictionary >or translation program.
Congratulations, Jim ! With due respect to your immense capability, may I suggest a little correction ? You translated the phrase "ils furent officiellement adopt�s en France par le d�cret sur les unit�s de mesure du 26 juillet 1919" as "they were officially adopted in France for multiples of the units of measure on 1919 July 26". You missed the fact that the prefixes were adopted by a "d�cret" (decree ?), i.e. a legal action. Incidentally, I had the opportunity to visit the BIPM in S�vres the other week - I was not shown the Meter nor the Kilogram, the lady who welcomed me had only one of the three necessary keys ! Discussing with people there, I measured the respect they have for Henri Moreau - who was not director of BIPM when he wrote his book : he was in charge of the BIPM "scientific secretariat". Louis
