You provoke an interesting reflection.
Apparently Brandon Skyhorse is suggesting that using one quantity and one unit with no conversion factors at all, is more confusing that the situation with (say) energy units where there are at least 68 different measures and some 4556 different conversion factors back and forth between them.
I have trouble with this concept. Can anyone send me an email address for Brandon Skyhorse.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216
Geelong, Australia
61 3 5241 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.metricationmatters.com
P.S. For Bill Hooper. Your email is arriving here with some quite large font sizes.
On 24/03/06 2:42 PM, "Bill Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2006 Mar 23 , at 8:45 PM, Paul Trusten, R.Ph. wrote:
Regarding the statement by Brandon Skyhorse, representative of the publishers of Tim Flannery's new book on global warming entitled "The Weather Makers":
We felt that metrics would be confusing for a great
many readers, so we decided to covert to Imperial measurements for our
(U.S.) edition.
And that action is insulting to many of us and demeaning to the entire US population, suggesting that Americans are too stupid to understand metric.
Regards,
Bill Hooper
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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