[USMA:51590] Re: Someone asked me the below question- any thoughts?

[John M. Steele]

I guess to be official, NIST would have to change the text of Special Pub. 330, the U.S. version of the SI brochure.   For a U.S. student, I think a solid metric education should include both the preferred US usage AND awareness of the alternate usage in other countries.  They should be prepared to accept either as correct in information they receive, but to use the US preference in their own work.  They need to clearly understand that other nationalities will likely use their own national preferences. (That begs the question for foreign students temporarily in the United States.)   Thus, meter, liter, metric ton, and deka- over metre, litre, tonne, and deca- Decimal point over decimal comma Symbol L over l for liter. --- On Wed, 4/4/12, Metric Rules Info <i...@metricrules.org> wrote: From: Metric Rules Info <i...@metricrules.org> Subject: [USMA:51586] Someone asked me the below question- any thoughts? To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> Date: Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 7:40 PM I wonder if, upon US adoption of SI, whether "tonne"'d be used over current pref "metric ton" since short "ton" wouldn't exist     Bridget Nagarajan Metric Rules Metric Only STEM Education in the USA   The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer.