Madan: You keep spelling Celsius with a small c. It's "degrees Celsius."
Remember that Celsius is not, itself, an SI unit. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of M R Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 06:26 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:18563] Metric & Precision Metric System tries to be as precise as possible. Earlier we said that 0 degrees centigrade = 273 K, now we say that 0 degrees celsius = 273.15 K and tomorrow an even precise unit will declare 0 degrees at 273.15323432 K. For a layman its enough if we say that 0 degrees celsius = 273 K and the decimals matter only for a person studying/working with science. In the same way, 1 day contains 86,400 seconds and earth's circumference is 40,000 km. So milliseconds and decimal part of km are not relevant for a common man unless they ask for it. Lets talk at integer level for a layman and decimal level for a scientist or research guy. Madan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/
