----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian J White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 9:36 PM Subject: [USMA:26885] Re: Non-SI metric units
> > >The name of the millibar should be changed to the hectopascal, which is a > >multiple of the SI derived unit the pascal. > > This (to me) is somewhat of a shame as I always liked bar.....and in > particular millibar sounds infinately better than hectopascal. > >
