It is true that this topic is not metric, and it is true that for reasons
of rushing a paper I asked the original and subsequent questions.
I can only offer the excuse that I am writing a paper for a bunch of
engineers in the USA who work in barrels and quads and cf/s etc. I needed
to change the units and also understand a little of the differences and to
make sure I did not make mistakes when I go talk about this issue.
All the notes have been very helpful and I have made a much better paper
that will be read hopefully by a few hundred non metric engineers who may
learn some metric. Is that not the point of the USMA. SO indirectly this
really helped
Metric is about standards -- worldwide standards. So was the electrical topic recently discussed. It was an interesting diversion, since no concrete efforts to get the USA off its rear end seem to be happening right now.
Carleton
