[USMA:35546] Re: What's a good name for ten togs?

[Pat Naughtin]

Title: Re: [USMA:35545] What's a good name for ten togs?

Dear Pierre,

Might I respectfully point out that a tog is not an SI unit. It does not appear in the BIPM Pamphlet at all.

It is simply scientific and technical jargon used in the textile trade. Even there, in my experience, it was understood, or used, by very few.

Cheers,

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Geelong, Australia
Phone 61 3 5241 2008

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On 3/01/06 4:05 PM, "Pierre Abbat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> A tog is a decikelvin square meter per watt, so called because it's about the
> thermal insulation of summer clothing. The coherent SI unit is ten togs.
> Should we call it a jacket, or what?
>
> phma
>