Touche, Jim (please add accent). Exponents go only on unit symbols, not on unit names.
---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:22:00 -0500 >From: "James R. Frysinger" <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:47709] Re: Fw: Re: Oil Spill Technical Team Using SI >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > > >Gene, > >I'm really surprised that you would put an exponent on a unit name, >rather than on a unit symbol, or instead of spelling it out as in "cubic >decimeter". > >You're getting downright casual and mellow, my friend. > >Jim >... >[email protected] wrote: >> But I want to hear the estimates in *mass* units, kilograms and kg/s, not in >> decimeters^3 or in liters or their time rates of flow.
