Re: unit and prefix capitalization

2002-07-20 Thread ggarside
FYI, for anyone planning to export using US Customary Units, I believe the three officially non-metric countries mentioned in an earlier posting are: USA, Liberia and Myanmar (Burma). For anyone interested in more resources (or history), I looked into US Metrication a while back, these are the

RE: Unit and prefix capitalization

2002-07-17 Thread Peter Tarver
While this is belaboring the issue and, other than if I happen to run across any relevant standards references, it should be noted that most new and many updated standards we have to deal with are written using SI as the primary and sometimes only units. Also, in most scientific and engineering

Re: Unit and prefix capitalization

2002-07-17 Thread Vit Gorod
Dear Chuck and Peter, When there's no enforcement, ther's no will. Correct me if I am wrong. You may not get many enthusiastic responses because since 1997 the US governement gave up on all decades-long efforts to introduce metric system. Whether we like it or not, the SI comes into play