Folks, I had reason, alas, to sit for some time in the customer waiting room at a car dealer's shop while the brakes on my car were being worked on. While I was there, I perused the 2004 November issue of a magazine called _SC Forestry_ and found the two largest articles in there were fairly fully metricated.
One used cubic meters to describe the volume of wood traded and one used kilograms and metric tons to describe the masses of wood products being discussed. Both had to do with world markets, so perhaps that was the inspiration, though both articles discussed these matters from a South Carolina perspective on domestic and world trade issues. Neither one gave non-metric equivalents except that in one spot (a note on a graph axis) the second article gave the equivalent of 2204 lb for the metric ton. Unfortunately it also symbolized the kilogram with KG and it used acres to indicate land areas. But still....! Here in South Carolina....! It is not uncommon anymore to see technical publications (manufacturing, engineering, computers, etc.) that use metric units, but this was a forestry magazine! And it was privately published by the South Carolina Forrestry Association (of foresters, timber cutters, timber processors, et al.) and not by one of the state's agencies! Jim -- James R. Frysinger Lifetime Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist Senior Member, IEEE http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: Physics Lab Manager, Lecturer Dept. of Physics and Astronomy University/College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 843.953.7644 (phone) 843.953.4824 (FAX) Home: 10 Captiva Row Charleston, SC 29407 843.225.0805
