On Wednesday 18 November 2009 22:11:48 Remek Kocz wrote: > Exactly, if you want to market the metric system, you have to show its > simplicity. KISS-Keep It Simple Stupid is the rule. There are only 8 > units that one would need to learn for daily life: 4 units of length (km, > m, cm, mm), 2 units of weight (kg, g), and 2 units of volume (L, mL). The > clearest advantage is in volumes, because the current hodge-podge of 4 > units that don't relate to one another in any logical way, could be reduced > to 2.
Also the degree Celsius. What about the milligram? If I take 500 mg of vitamin C, which someone else has weighed and squashed into a tablet, does that count? Or does it have to be a unit I measure myself to be one I need to learn? Pierre -- I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when I'm in Wales.
