And I dream of the day when people will (finally) refer to the liter by its *real* name, the cubic decimeter... :-)
Marcus On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 16:38:03 RobertHB wrote: > 2003 November 5 >27444 starts out "First of all, the litre is not an SI unit." > This is a big mistake. What should be said is that > "The litre is not a coherent SI unit." > >We want the public to accept and use the decimal metric system of >units. We call it SI but there are multiples and some outliers >like litre which are not coherent. If we say the multiples and >outliers are not in the system, people will say we are nuts. >Regardless of what CIPM says, millimetre is SI, litre is SI. >Otherwise we are out of business. >The units in Tables 6 and 7 of SI10 are SI. To say otherwise is >to shoot ourselves in the foot. > Robert Bushnell PhD PE > chair ASTM Committee E43 on SI Practice > > ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
