Pat, Good luck trying to perfect terminology for units of measurement "outside the SI"; which includes many collections of incoherent miscellaneous units none of which comprise a "system" of units with properties of uniqueness, coherence, and completeness which characterize only SI.
Gene. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:45:25 +1000 >From: Pat Naughtin <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:47878] The metric system or what? >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > > Dear All, > > As I have been reading the USMA mail list over > several years I have collected many of the names > that others have used...
