Pierre & all:>> Again, please help me understand where the hold up is?
Ever since I involved myself in attempting to 'improve implementation of
Metrication (Time & Calendar inclusive)', I felt most experts intend to
confuse, the term METRIC. I assign TWO factors:
(1) term METRIC is not understood to mean as 'linked to length unit - Metre'.
Thus, any quantity 'decimally divisible need NOT be called belonging to SI
Mteric system of units'; unless this is also linked to length unit Metre.
"The 'metric system' is often confused with the decimal notation:
"Metric, pertaining to or of the metre; -system, decimal measuring system with
the metre, & litre and the gram determined by it, as the units of length,
capacity and weight; the prefixing to the metre etc., of the Greek derived
'deca-, hecto-, kilo-' denoting multiplication by 10, 100, 1000 as in kilometre
of 1000 metres; that of Latin derived 'deci-, centi-, milli-, denoting division
by 10, 100, 1000 as in decilitre, one-tenth of a litre".
It is, therefore, to be understood that any quantity that is decimally
divided or multiplied is ONLY decimal; and it can be classified into the Metric
domain – if and only if this is also linked to the length Unit METRE,
to belong to the SI Metric System of Units".
(2) Units of Time and length (essentially arc-length via Pi/180) remained
isolated and dealt independently that lacked inter-merger i.e. the corelation
between the unit for time (s) had no link with length unit - m and/or
(arc-angle). Thus, it is essential to link new time interval (decimal second,
sd) and New length unit, (Metre New, (m'). See:
http://www.brijvij.com/bb_deci-sec-nu-mtr.pdf
Count of number of days for calendar construction is a built up of
seconds-minutes-hours to days-weeks/fortnights-months-YEARS to Era markers.
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[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:40549] Re: US Metrics History and now> Date:
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:15:13 -0500> > On Tuesday 11 March 2008 15:40, ernie
edwards wrote:> > Can someone bring me up to speed on what is holding up
converting> > completely to metrics?> >> > I was exposed to metrics, while
living in Spain for 5 years in the mid> > 80's. We were building Dept. of
Defense buildings in a number of> > Mediterranean countries.... metrics sure
made sense to me....> >> > I am trying to start a dialog in the American
Institute of Architects (AIA)> > on supporting full conversion and I have sent
emails to The Associated> > General Contractors (AGC) and The National Society
of Professional> > Engineers (NSPE) asking their position on metrics. So far, I
haven't heard> > from either the AGC or NSPE.> >> > Again, please help me
understand where the hold up is?> > I'm taking statics, and the textbook
(Spiegel and Limbrunner) is set up with > all problems either entirely metric
or entirely foot-pound, except for a few > at the beginning which deal with
conversion of units. Someone who goes > through that course is going to get the
idea that the two sets of units don't > mix, and when presented with a
foot-sized building with loads in kilograms, > or vice versa, he's going to
fall apart. The proper way to set up the > problems is with each problem being
mostly or entirely metric, with the > answer expected in metric, but a few data
being in feet or pounds.> > The change to metric-sized CMUs was mismanaged. The
proper way to do it, I > think, would be to designate some factories to produce
nothing but metric > blocks, rather than tell each factory to produce some of
each and have them > easily mixed up in inventory.> > Pierre>
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