See! SI is a "FANTASTIC" improvement over old stuff. It's all
standardized and everyone talks in the same way. (NOT!)
Thank you France.
Vive la pound, and inch, and mile...
(This post was posted with sarcastic mode set to "on".)
Tony Thigpen
Paul Gilmartin wrote on 7/22/20 5:58 PM:
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 17:05:29 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
I took me a while before I realized that, of course, kg is a unit of mass, not
of weight; you weigh tings in kilogram-force (kgf or kgF).
Which of the following would you envision and welcome as an idiomatic
alternative?:
o ... how many kg I mass?
o ... how many kgF I weigh?
o Other (specify)?
Should an outfitter sell climbing ropes rated in Newtons?
(BTW, what's the SI unit of Specific Impulse? And the formula for ∆v? Ugh!)
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... I'd have to calculate to tell you how many kg I weigh.
-- gil
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