What a clever, interesting suggestion, Matthew! However, I suspect its chance of acceptance by BIPM folks would be close to nill as these folks are quite... pragmatic about things. I.e. you would need a lot more than just... "appearances" for it to have a chance of success.
Regards, Marcus On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:04:20 Matthew Zotter wrote: >2002 DEC 20 FRI > >A while back, we were talking about replacing the kg with something. Although this >will not happen for about 200 or so years, what do you think of the following? > >Eventually (once USA has used SI for about 100 years), let's replace the kilogram >with . . . let's say . . . the keg (meaning: one kilogram 1 kg = 1 Kg one keg). I >choose keg solely for the sysmbol Kg to look like kg since they would represent the >same thing. >one kilokeg 1 kKg = 1 tonne >one millikeg 1 mKg = 1 gram > >V/R >Matthew Zotter >SC, USA > ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
