On 2005 Sep 10 , at 7:41 PM, Brij Bhushan Vij wrote:
World Metric Decaday, suggesting: Decaday starting on October 05th thro October 14th - World Standards Day be the TEN DAYS
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has established "National Metric Week" in the US and designated it to be the calendar week (Sunday to Saturday) that includes 10-10 (October 10th). Many other organizations have joined in and supported this designation of Metric Week.
While Brij's suggestion is interesting, I'm not sure it adds much of significance to the Metric Week idea. A few more days one way or the other is not of much consequence. And the idea of calling it a "dekaday" (for "ten-day") is not very consistent with SI metric practice. The day is not an SI unit of time. Generally, it is not considered proper SI usage to add SI prefixes to non-SI units. So coining the "dekaday" is not particularly good SI practice.
Regards,
Bill Hooper
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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