> From: NIST Laws and Metric Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 10:02 AM > To: Matthew Zotter (by way of Inquiries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) (by way of > OWM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > Cc: Bruce Barrow - NIST; Tom Coleman - NIST; Linda Crown - NIST > Subject: Re: U.S. Customary Units
Ken Butcher wrote: > There is no Federal Standard for customary units because the use of > those units reflect the measurements used in the marketplace... I disagree! Ken Butcher addresses the question of appropriate rounding of units for use of in the marketplace, but avoids the question of "definitions" of non-metric units as multiples of SI units. Many of those are completely exact to many significant digits; exact to many more digits than are appropriate for the marketplace. Butcher ignores that fact. Gene.
