Bill, Monty Python humor is extremely absurd. In the case of SI, the absurdity is the purging of *all* expressions that are outside the SI. The difference is that SI is not a joke.
Gene. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:43:57 -0400 >From: Bill Hooper <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [USMA:47593] Re: UK Transport Minister banishes metric in all >official communications >To: [email protected] > > Giving SI equivalents (in the example below) seems > unnecessary in this context, Gene. > The whole point was to illustrate that the Old > English system is cumbersome. The illustration would > not be clarified any further by providing > equivalents in SI. The implication is clear that > such a problem would be simpler in SI (or any other > logical measuring system). It is not necessary to > try to prove that point with an SI example. > Bill Hooper > 74 kg body mass* > Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA > * plus or minus a kilogram or so. > On Jun 9 , at 9:27 AM, <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Where are the SI values? > If you insist on writing non-SI expressions, > please put them in quotes as Jin did. >...
