Indeed, but if I manage to succeed in getting commercial status for the grade who knows BIPM may change the status of grade to make it at least equal to the current degree thing... ;0-)
we can only hope... Marcus On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 13:16:28 Joseph B. Reid wrote: >Pat Naughtin wrote in USMA 27212: >> >> Grad, grade >> Grade or grad comes from the Latin word, gradus, that means a 'step'. >> Grade >> has always had a connotation of dividing a larger quantity or unit. In >> this >> way grade has had the same meaning as degree. >> The Oxford English Dictionary cites a 1593 definition when it defines >> 'Grade' as: 'Math. A degree; the 90th part of a right angle or >> quadrant'. >> > > >Note that this is a 1593 definition of the grade. Le Petit Robert >defines grade from 1803 as *Centihme partie d'un quadrant*. > >The metric bible, 1998 edition lists the radian (symbol "rad") as "an >SI derived unit". It lists the degree (of angle) as a "non-SI unit >accepted for use with the International System". It does not list the >grade, grad. or gon at all. > > ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
