Cole: We had a discussion of "meter-cubed" shortly before you joined the list. The correct spoken or narrative term is "cubic meters." The symbol, m�, is spoken as "cubic meters."
(I typed the symbol as an m with a superscripted 3. It may or may not have come out that way at your end.) Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 07:31 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:29836] Re: Liters or cubic decimeters? > > >I tend to agree with Mr. Wade in using the liter over meter-cubed. >Although the liter is not an official base unit of SI, it is more >convenient to use the prefixes in regards to unit-conversion than >meter-cubed. The liter is also more convenient to speak of than >meter-cubed. > >-- >-----Thanks!----- > >Cole Kingsbury >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >---------------- > > >> >I don't believe anything I wrote earlier contradicted what you wrote >> >below. Specifically I do not believe I said that the litre is >> >deprecated for non-precision use. I said that I understood it to be >> >advisable not to use the SI prefixes with litre; for example, since >> >1000 L = 1 m^3, therefore the cubic metre should be used, not the >> >kilolitre. >> >> But this would negate one of the main advantages of the liter: >the fact that >> it follows the 'normal' linear use of prefixes. Translating >milliliters into >> liters or back is as easy as converting between millimeters and meters. >> >> Whereas I see the need for converting to cubic meters when coherence is >> required (e.g. calculating densities etc), to suggest that we >shouldn't use >> milliliters (almost universally used on soda cans here) or >centiliters (widely >> used in the wine industry) would be a huge own goal. Remember, >the aim is >> to encourage the use of the metric system. Adopting strategies that make >> it more difficult are definitely counterproductive. Liters are probably >> the metric units that most Americans are familiar with, thanks >to Coca Cola. >> Lets be grateful for that. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Tom Wade | EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> EuroKom | X400: g=tom;s=wade;o=eurokom;p=eurokom; >> Unit A2 | a=eirmail400;c=ie >> Nutgrove Office Park | Tel: +353 (1) 296-9696 >> Rathfarnham | Fax: +353 (1) 296-9697 >> Dublin 14 | Disclaimer: This is not a disclaimer >> Ireland | Tip: "Friends don't let friends do Unix !" >>
