----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 3:20 PM Subject: [USMA:20409] (repost) More metric stuff, The point of standards?
> (Sorry if this is a repost -- I never saw the first one come through.) > > Shopping in Middletown, New York, came across a couple more metric-sized > products: > tea bags Boston Tea Company (New Jersey) 50 g, 100 g, 125 g > hot sauce Ashman (Virginia) (bourbon & chipotle) 200 mL > > The first (tea bags) is already shown under the generic section of the > USMA consumer products page, and there were several flavors and sizes. > I also came across a very nice 500 mL measuring cup from a German company, > with no colloquial units. It had only milliliters on it, but the units > were labeled "ML/CCM". So, apparently even people in countries that have been metric for a long time cannot get the symbols right. many, no, a lot of don't even know the SI style conventions, look here http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html most common mistake false: 200 x 10 x 35 mm right: 200 mm x 10 mm x 35 mm OR 200 x 10 x 35 mm� Which makes me > question how critical such exactness of usage is in the first place. > Jim Elwell, CAMS > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
