Carleton, Sir:
.....she could have mentioned about A paper sizes is how the proportion
remains the same,.....
I wish to add:
(1) Paper sizes run in the ratio 1:sqrt2.
(2) In understading the Metric system, one must bear in mind that *anything
decimal is NOT METRIC, but every thing known & understood as of Metric Units
is a decimal multiple or sub-multiple
of 'metric unit/quantity'*. In short: METRIC is what has a relation with the
Metre - the length unit!
For counting large quantities or numbers, I suggested multiples &
sub-multiples in steps of 10^5.
See: http://www.the-light.com/cal/bbv_udncode%20.doc
Brij Bhushan Vij
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From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:35472] RE: Fwd: Kudos and constructive comments
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 19:50:22 -0500
One thing she could have mentioned about A paper sizes is how the
proportion
remains the same, making it very easy to expand an A4 document to A3 or
shrink an A3 document to A4.
Carleton
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OK, I found the time to comment
Jim
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Subject: Kudos and constructive comments
Date: Monday 26 December 2005 16:08
From: "James R. Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Dear Ms Jacci Howard Bear,
Your website provides many pages of extremely useful and explicit
guidance. Thank you!
I happened across the general page on measurements
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/intermediate/a/measurements.htm
and the subsequent pages starting at
http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/intermediate/a/basicmetric.htm
and I am very happy with them, for the most part.
Please indulge me as I make a couple of small suggestions:
1. Avoid "nekkid decimal points", as I call them for my students. No
number should start with a decimal point; put a 0 (zero) in front of
any decimal number smaller than 1.0 to avoid this problem. Many mishaps
have been caused by this solecism. Several years ago a 3-year old girl
died in a Boston hospital because the doctor prescribed .5 mg of a
medicine (meaning 0.5 mg) and the nurse read it as and administered 5
mg (i.e., 5.0 mg) of medicine, which proved fatal. Nekkid decimal
points are gauche in the metric world. Do not be put at ease by the
fact that you will encounter many gauche people, even in metric
countries.
2. The word "metrics" means something other than what you think. The
system of measurement is the metric system, not metrics. We use metric
units and prefixes to express values. In the plural form, "metrics"
means things that can be measured in order to assess a system, not the
particular system of measurement that we call metric (singular). We
speak of the metrics one might use to assess literacy, for example.
Instead of "metrics", you might use "metric units" or "metric values".
Thank you for referring to the U.S. Metric Association! That is a
superb organization. Could you add a hyperlink to their home page? You
have many other useful links on your pages and this would be a superb
addition. It could be coded to create a new target window so the
reader of your page does not lose contact with you.
regards,
Jim Frysinger
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