Mile Joy wrote in USMA 21426 >Thanks for that, Pat. >I guess the space was put in to separate the 'l' for litres so it doesn't >look like a figure 1. But when the script 'l' is used it's not so much of a >problem. Even so, I have never seen a space between the numeral and the unit >in normal practice.
The script "l" was introduced (was it in Australia?) to distinguish it from the digit "1", but it was never recognized by the CGPM. The *Comit� Consultatif des Unit�s* in 1976 June 25 recommended to the *Comit� International des Poids et Mesures* the adoption of the symbol L for the litre in lieu of the lower case l. The 16th *Conf�rence des Poids et Mesure* in 1979 decided as an exception to adopt the l and L as symbols for the litre. The *Conf�rence* asked the *Comit� International des Poids et Mesures* to provide its views on the possibility on suppressing one of them. Two professors of the University of Waterloo (Ontario) during a drunken evening invented Jean-Baptiste Litre, a French bottle maker, after whom the litre bottle was named. Thus they justified the use of L as the symbol for litre;.This fantasy was picked up and considerably embroidered,by *Le Syst�me M�trique* of *L'Association M�trique de France*. Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
