On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, kilopascal wrote: > > I would like to know what common household or laboratory balance can measure > to that many digits. This is utterly goofy!
The point is, John, that the many digits represent the *exact definition* of the dram, not a measured value on any scale, a common household scale or a laboratory balance of the highest accuracy. Definitions of units, and the measurements of objects in those units are two distinctly different operations. ......................................................................... > > 1 avdp. dram = 0.001 771 845 195 312 5 kilogram, quoted from page 11.
