Two of us, myself and Martin already touched on this. I am wondering how the news media will handle this when it comes out that the American practice of not using a zero to precede a decimal number less then one was the cause of the deaths of all of these horses.
If it can happen with horses, it can happen with people, which means there may already be countless thousands of people who have died senseless deaths due to the omission of a zero. Does the pharmaceutical industry have any rules concerning this? Jerry ________________________________ From: Bill Hooper <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 4:48:35 PM Subject: [USMA:44865] Re: Horse deaths in Florida On Apr 25 , at 7:50 AM, John M.. Steele wrote: ... the horses' lab-made supplements included 5 milligrams per milliliter of sodium selenite instead of the prescribed 0.5 milligrams. One wonders if this may have been a case of omitting the 0 (zero) before the decimal point in "0.5". Without that leading zero, the decimal point might easily be overlooked. Regards, Bill Hooper Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA ========================== SImplification Begins With SI.. ==========================
