I have a wild kind of conclusion for all of this---let encourage the people of
the U.S. to learn how SI works! Let's learn to move that handy, dancing decimal
point and apply the right prefix. I think we should all be fluent in the concept
of the decimal metric system, so it can be said that we never met a multiple we
didn't like (grin). For example, we should be able to read 175 cm as 1750 mm by
inspection, just as we read "$0.25" as twenty-five cents without thinking about
it.


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Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
Public Relations Director
U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
Phone (432)528-7724
www.metric.org
3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122
Midland TX 79707-2872 USA
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://home.grandecom.net/~trusten


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