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A moot but telling point. You might have added, for those not familiar with the content of the BIPM Brochure, that anyone can download a free copy of the BIPM brochure from http://www.bipm.org/ Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia -- on 12/1/04 4:43 AM, Gene Mechtly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Pat, > > More precisely, the road construction committee in Australia chose to use > the SI prefixes *milli*, *kilo*, or *no prefix* for the SI unit of length. > > That is; millimeter (mm), meter (m), and kilometer (km) were chosen. > > This wording conforms with the statements in the BIPM Brochure that there > is only one SI unit of length, the meter, which may be scaled up or down > by application of an SI prefix selected from those listed in Table 5. > > I point this out, again, for the benefit of newcomers who may not yet be > familiar with the content of the BIPM Brochure. > > Gene. > ........................................ > > On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Pat Naughtin wrote: > >> ... >> The road construction committee chose to use kilometres, metres, and >> millimetres as their units... >
