On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 Terry at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > My problem is that I was surprised when I read that some non-SI units > are described as metric.
Terry, The cgs units in Table 9 and the other non-SI units in Table 10 were in wide use before the official creation of the SI in 1960, and some of these are still widely used. They were and still are frequently described as "metric units" even though they are not SI units. > I can't see anywhere in the text of the SI brochure that supports this. Granted, the authors of the BIPM Brochure chose to use the terms SI units and non-SI units rather than terms such as non-metric units, old metric units, or new, or retained metric units for the SI, but that does not alter the fact that the units of Tables 9 and 10 were and still are frequently called "metric units" in both older and current technical journals and books. Gene.
