Hi Mark,
May I suggest that you illustrate the importance of capital and small lettered prefixes by quoting the power of a typical hearing aid as about 1 mW and the power of a medium-sized office air conditioning as being 1 MW! Martin From: USMA [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Henschel Sent: 01 October 2018 14:32 To: Carleton MacDonald Cc: USMA List Server Subject: [USMA 880] Re: Bush Park Trail Sign km I have written several letters to places that sponsor fun runs and walks or races, asking them to use the proper symbol for kilometer (km) instead of the capital or small letter k by itself. Most places ignored my letters. In one case, I think it was Runner's World magazine, they actually mocked my letter, making it sound like I was the one divorced from reality. I think would help STEM students a lot to see more correlations between things that are already metric in society and the metric they see in their science classes, but so far road race sponsors seem to have no desire to follow the proper rules for SI usage. Mark Henschel On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 9:48 PM Carleton MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: Isn't a capital letter "K" by itself Kelvins? Carleton On 2018-09-29, 10:03, "[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: Yesterday 28 Sep 2018 while peddling home from work through Bush Park, a group of high school runners pass me going in the opposite direction. I catch a conversation snippet from a young man, “one mile left up that way” or something like that. Then, about thirty meters beyond that, I notice a temporary event sign indicating distances in kilometers. I just HAD to take a picture! I assume these runners are participants in this event. I am saddened that these high school-age runners default to legacy units in conversation instead of embracing the units of their own event. I peddle my bike back and forth to work through Bush Park five kilometers each way year-round rain or shine. Salem Oregon _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
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