[USMA:26521] Re: Speaking of automotive gauges.

[Joseph B. Reid]

Pat Naughtin wrote in USMA 26520:
The use of kilogram per square centimetre (or bars) as units of pressure
seem to be hangovers of earlier metric systems.

Did I misunderstand?  Did Pat mean kilogram per square centimetre and 
bar?  They are not quite the same.  The bar is 10^5 Pa.  The kg/cm2 = 
98 066.5 Pa
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Joseph B. Reid
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