Actually, he was quoting Marcus Berger's response to me. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joseph B. Reid Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 16:09 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:19186] Re: What is an SI unit? Duncan Bath in USMA 19183 quoted Bill Potts who wrote ... >>Now, here I have some trouble with the above. To me one can *always* find >adequate ratio ranges that would stick with existing prefixes, and clearly >L/100 km simply does not follow that principle. Duncan added: >Well, maybe the idea of L/Mm should be postponed and simply use what SI >gives us: L/hm I think Duncan meant litres per hectokilometre, which is bad form because double prefixes are not allowed. Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 TEL. 416-486-6071
