The Mechanical Engineering magazine published an excerpt from the letter I had posted here earlier. Unfortunately, the published version, while promoting metric, omitted the metric numbers. Here is the MSWord version of the original.
It has been my experience with most publications that they resent numbers ("we
do not want to confuse our readers" (!)). Maybe my engineering background makes
me think that numbers are more useful than adjectives such as huge, expensive,
skyrocketing, ..... that one reads and hear endlessly. But I do agree that
numbers in I-P units can indeed be confusing. :-)
Stan Jakuba
Le-Obama MEmag2.doc
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