We should not furnish fuel for the BWMA, the ACWM etc with things like L/Mm of even more L/hectokilometer, which indeed is wrong as Joe points out. Two prefixes preceding a unit are a no-no and hecto is deprecated as well. L/100 km is a perfectly practical and acceptable unit.
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 2002-04-01 02:09 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
