However, people appear reluctant to apply the prefixes beyond kilo to metres and grams. Does >anybody have any idea why that is?
We human have a reason NOT TO THINK beyond our own table of work!
While in US visiting my children, I have been discussing distances related to 'Pi & Radian' when this unit also had come up. May I recall my several postings some time during April-July 2003: some such are usma 26350, 26357, 26368. I am not sure if you have, as yet, come across my BASE contribution:
The Metric Second, published throught Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi in their issue ISI Billentin; 1973 April; pp 152-157.
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Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda.
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Thirty days in July, September:
April, June, November, December;
All the rest have thirty-one; accepting February alone:
Which hath but twenty-nine, to be (in) fine;
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Is it not time to MODIFY or change to make it perennial, Oh Daddy!
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From: "Terry Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:26933] RE: NASA NEO report Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:48:33 +0100
>The main exception is that they use the non-SI unit AU quite >a bit. Maybe you'd brand me a heretic, but I think this is a >useful unit for discussing distances of objects in relation >to Earth - it beats "so many million km from Earth."
I think 'million km' beats AU. I am familiar with metres and see them all around me but have no idea about AU.
Incidentally, 'million km' is not the only SI compliant way of expressing a distance of that magnitude. However, people appear reluctant to apply the prefixes beyond kilo to metres and grams. Does anybody have any idea why that is?
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