[USMA:24523] Fwd: Re: Quad

[John Nichols]

Ok guys,

I am writing a paper for an American Society of Engineers publication.

I am including stuff from an old paper by my old Boss (best Boss a man ever had by the way, only problem is he glowed in the dark from being near to much funny material)

What is the SI preferred way to express

quads (equivalment) and numbers like 3 billion bbls

I wish to get this correct because of the audience. I have Cardarelli from the library but I wish to be absolutley correct


John

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At 20:56 -0500 03/01/18, Joseph B. Reid wrote:

Louis Jourdan wrote in USMA 24497:

Again from Rowlett:

quad
a unit of energy equal to 10^15 (one quadrillion) Btu or about 1.055 petajoules or 293.07 terawatt hours (TWh).

>From Cardarelli:
        1 quad = 1.05505585262 x 10^15 J

I think a factor of 1000 got lost in Louis' numbers.  I get
        1 quad = 1055 petajoules,
and my edition of Cardarelli says
        1 quad = 1.05505585262 X 10^18 J

Correct. Thanks for having detected the error.

Louis

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