I am not talking about blindly, someone should think about that what he
writes!
if it makes sense at all
if you write 200 x 100 x 50 mm, you will never be able to get the volume,
because you dont get to mm�
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 5:04 PM
Subject: [USMA:20413] Re: (repost) More metric stuff, The point of
standards?
> Wizard writes:
>
> > {You] aren't one of the metric supporters I supposed you to be!
> >
> > [one] little example
> >
> > 200 x 10 mm could mean 200 pieces of 10 mm long sticks
> > 200 mm x 10 mm makes absolutely clear that's this is a area!
>
> Lacking any context, your example may be one where both units should be
> specified -- just as my own guideline suggests.
> If you mean to imply that anyone who does not blindly follow any document
> published by NIST is not a metric supporter, then you are correct -- I am
> not a metric supporter by that definition.
> Of course, that is a pretty mindless definition of what constitutes a
> metric supporter.
> Jim Elwell, CAMS
>
>
