Some people are just behind the times when it comes to changes. There are still people who call degrees Celsius as centigrade even though the name centigrade was deprecated in 1948, some 56 years ago.
Encyclopaedias, dictionaries, lexicons, etc. are not the authority on units and definitions, the BIPM is. For accurate info on SI go to http://www.bipm.fr and nowhere else. Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gavin Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2004-02-20 22:42 Subject: [USMA:28831] Re: litre and hectar are not SI units > I'm glad to hear that the liter was defined! The books I read about metric > (including online encylopedias) were using the kg of water at a specific > temperature as the official definition of the liter and said that a liter was > not exactly on cubic decimeter. > > I guess by definition, a ml now equals exactly a cubic cm (aka "cc" by the > motorcyle and scooter industries and some in the medical proffession). I guess > that means that we should also use the cubic decimeter term for liquid measure > (such as in cooking and in reference to gasoline fuel) as well as for dry > capacity. I'm glad to see that we no longer need the redundant term of liter, > though I will still likely use it for a while.
