Yeah, I really BLEW that!!! Let's urge the powers that be to consider, the eminently SImple, L/Mm. As a follow-up, the used car dealers should LOVE Mm (sorry, we're Canadian) since they would have a legitimate, compact form for vehicle 'mileage' in their ads. Duncan
-----Original Message----- From: Joseph B. Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: March 31, 2002 19:20 Subject: [USMA:19186] Re: What is an SI unit? >Duncan Bath in USMA 19183 quoted Bill Pots 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 >
