One of the confusions in the British press is to write minus 4 C, not -4°C
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stan Jakuba Sent: 06 May 2009 02:50 To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:45019] Letter to ed 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
