----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 8:51 AM
Subject: [USMA:22058] Re: hPa and mbar


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| > 
| > On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:10:21   
| >  G. Stanley Doore wrote:
| > >Moving the decimal point is easy and Ok for those like you all 
| > who deal with
| > >SI all of the time.
| > >
| > ??  Actually, dear Stan, it's 'easy and ok' for *everybody*!  
| > That's the exact beauty of the SI system, that it's for any and 
| > everyone, from the Joe Six Pack on the street to the Einstein in us.
| > 
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| 
| SI is Joe Ten Pack, I believe. 
 

After 10 beers, Joe wouldn't know what a decimal point is!

(Apologies to Joe Reid who wouldn't touch a Six Pack of course).

Mike
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