Uhhhhm, I don't think I am hiding the metric system, Pat.
Jim
On 2010-11-23 1612, Pat Naughtin wrote:
On 2010/11/23, at 10:43 , James R. Frysinger wrote:
A Fox News article for travelers on the subject of bed bugs
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/11/17/avoid-bedbugs-vacation/
suggests washing clothes (upon return home) in very hot water since
"bedbugs won’t survive heat above 113 degrees Fahrenheit"
That rather awkward sounding figure of course is 45 °C.
Jim
Dear Jim,
/*Don't be an inch-ounce victim,*/
/*By hiding the metric system!*/
Hiding the metric system by using "/metric conversion/" as your approach
to metrication is slow, painfully slow. See the quote by the great
American journalist, H. L. Mencken, who could have been talking about
metric conversion when he wrote:
/*
*/
/*... for every complex problem there is a solution that is clear,
simple and wrong.*/
See http://www.metricationmatters.com/metric_conversion.html
Hiding the metric system us also extremely costly. let me quote from the
Business Plan of the ISO/TC 12 Quantities, units, symbols, conversion
factors at:
http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink/fetch/2000/2122/687806/ISO_TC_012__Quantities%2C_units%2C_symbols%2C_conversion_factors_.pdf?nodeid=1160789&vernum=-2
<http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink/fetch/2000/2122/687806/ISO_TC_012__Quantities%2C_units%2C_symbols%2C_conversion_factors_.pdf?nodeid=1160789&vernum=-2>
##
… Quantities and units are used in practically all industries in the
world. They are used in most schools and in faculties of natural
sciences, technology, and medicine in all universities in the world, and
also in some other university faculties. Quantities and units are also
very much used by governments and in every day life. The economic size
of the markets can be estimated to trillions of US dollars per year.
… The following list of quantitative indicators describes the business
environment in order to provide adequate information to support actions
of the ISO/TC:
It is very difficult to select the total market. However, here is an
attempt.
If only the market for basic textbooks in physics, chemistry, and
technology is considered and it is estimated that one chapter out of say
20 chapters deals explicitly with quantities and units (and the other
chapters implicitly) it is found that at least 5 % of this textbook
market can be referred to the field of quantities and units. This
implies billions and billions of US dollars each year.
Then consider the time teachers in science and technology at high
schools and universities spend on the subject quantities and units. The
fraction (including mathematics) is at least about the same order of
magnitude as in textbooks, i.e. 5 %, probably more. This implies even
higher economic resources than for textbooks.
In industry, the time fraction spent on quantities and units is probably
less than in education – let us say only 1 %, which is a low estimate –
but the total economic turnover is far much bigger in industry than in
teaching natural science and technology. Hence industrial activities in
this field represents several trillions US dollars each year. If the
alternative is considered that there did not exist any International
Standards for quantities and units, the costs for national and
international trade would further increase with at least one or two
powers of ten. An estimate, giving the same order of magnitude, has also
been made by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)
in USA.
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You will recall that I made an estimate of the cost of non-metrication
in the USA as about 1.4 trillion dollars a year at
http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/CostOfNonMetrication.pdf where I
paraphrased the USA Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896/1969) as saying:
/*"a trillion this year, and a trillion next year, pretty soon adds up
to real money"*/
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Author of the ebook, /Metrication Leaders Guide,/ see
http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html
Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY
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