On Sunday 21 February 2010 16:44:21 Pat Naughtin wrote: > Calorie vs kilojoule Defined by the BAAS in 1889 Still > widely > unknown and misunderstood after 121 years > > Note: there's an oddity. I wrote calorie with a lower case c and > because it was at the beginning of a line and the beginning of a > sentence my word processor kindly change the lower case c to an upper > case C and in doing so altered the value of the calorie to a Calorie – > 1000 times larger than I intended! Oh, well, I'll leave it as the > calorie and the Calorie have both been deprecated by the BIPM since > 1948 anyway.
I thought the calorie was declared obsolete over a hundred years ago? Or is that just when the joule was invented? Pierre -- Jews use a lunisolar calendar; Muslims use a solely lunar calendar.
