Stephen More like that since Paris troyes was cca 489g and English troy (16oz) was cca 498g so SI's 500 was basically a climb down by France in the face of more honourable Anglo Germanic standards. An it would be magnanimous in some ways to acknowledge this. (PS the cca 1000 gram pound is well know too - from about 1000 BC onwards as best I recall - comes from the well known principle that 'kings get double')
best rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 12:01 PM Subject: [USMA:32016] Re: A half litre of beer please. > Would this be similar to the 500 gramme pound that also doesn't exist > legally in the UK? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of ewc > Sent: 21 January 2005 10:59 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:32013] Re: A half litre of beer please. > > > > << Some folk in the UK want to avoid modern metric measures because they > come from Europe and are therefore Eurocentric. Apparently they want to > keep European measures so they don't have to use European measures!>> > > Looks like I've been wasting my time Pat > > Oh well > > rob > > >
