Stan, Remember that the coherent unit of mass in SI is the kilogram, not the megagram (Mg). See comments below.
---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:41:12 -0500 >From: "Stan Jakuba" <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:42601] Re: REALLY using the SI >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> >Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > > The megagram, Mg, is in every metrication guidebook > I ever saw and it is "common" in engineering > practice and textbooks. ???????????????????????????? >... > As we know, there is simply the Mg (as there are mg, > kg, Gg, etc.) for any mass... But only the kg (of mg, kg, Gg, etc.) is coherent with other of the coherent SI units. >... > Let's be consistent among us to start with, and > expand our horizons outside the English speaking > word (how is "ton" in Chinese?, Arabic?). The > coherent system called SI is the ultimate goal and > these silly non-coherences, some with the blessing > of BIPM, are only complicating and fuel anti-metric > sentiments in the U.S. Certainly, Stan! And let's avoid the Mg as one of the more recently appearing non-coherences. > Stan Jakuba
