One sometimes sees the dekameter (dam) used by meteorologists and
oceanographers.
Jim
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Dennis Brownridge wrote:
> The hectometer (hm) would be convenient for flight altitudes, if aviation
> ever metricates.
--
James R. Frysinger University/College
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:29:58 kilopascal wrote:
>2000-10-30
>...
> I just wish they would drop that one extra ml on the label of
> small bottles and just label them "340 mL"
>...
IMHO what really matters is that the final result be a rational size. Since all these
juice cans come with a 3-can
2000-10-30
I just wish they would drop that one extra ml on the label of
small bottles and just label them "340 mL"
greg
Saskatoon SK Canada
Or better yet, add 9 mL more and have a more rational 350 mL.
John
I suppose this Swiss convention (is it supposed be a prime or a
typewriter-style apostrophe?), like many others, would be useful as a
thousands-digit separator. But I understand that in some countries a prime
is used as the decimal marker (can anyone verify this), and it could also be
confused wit
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:37:44 -0700, "Dennis Brownridge"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What bottles are these, Greg? They must be old 12 Imp fl oz bottles = 6/10
>Imp pt.(= 341 mL). Our beer and soda bottles are all 355 mL (= 12 U.S. fl oz
>= 3/4 US pt.). Chris made a mistake: 3/4 Imp. pt. is 15 Im
What bottles are these, Greg? They must be old 12 Imp fl oz bottles = 6/10
Imp pt.(= 341 mL). Our beer and soda bottles are all 355 mL (= 12 U.S. fl oz
= 3/4 US pt.). Chris made a mistake: 3/4 Imp. pt. is 15 Imp. fl oz, not 14
2/3 Imp fl oz. All of which shows how ridiculous these old volume unit
I wrote:
> IBM must have a penchant for obscurantism, as I haven't found tremma used
> other than in their literature (and in some 18th century Italian poetry).
> Even the largest of my dictionaries doesn't include it.
I finally looked in my Cassell's German/English English/German dictionary.
Wit
Gustaf has raised an important question. When the English-speaking countries
decided to metricate, why did they generally suppress the prefixes hecto,
deka, deci, and centi? Can anyone give us a documented historical answer? In
the United States, for example, multiples like hectogram, deciliter, a
Scott:
It's not really odd. The three-digit version is straight ASCII (ISO 646).
The one with the leading zero conforms to an ANSI standard (I forget which
one). Microsoft allows both.
The ANSI standard is more useful as it covers a wider range of characters.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http:/
I guess Canadians fall comfortably in the middle.
Big Rock Brewery (Calgary AB) sells some of their popular brands in "500 mL" bottles -
- a metric pint!
I just wish they would drop that one extra ml on the label of small bottles and just
label them "340 mL"
greg
Saskatoon SK Canada
>>> "De
> > Metric prefix for micro, as in microgram, microliter
> > Alt230 µ µg µL
Interesting I've alway used "Alt0181" for µ.
Both work. Here is "Alt230" => µ.
Both select the same box in the character map too. To a former mac user
this seems od
It's been awhile since I last bought some Guinness (I think it was March 17th?)
The 440 mL rings an bell. I don't ever recall seeing the Imperial/US flozes on the can.
440 mL is too small for an Imperial pint (568 ml) and American flpint (473 ml).
Did Ireland, at one time, have its own pint? Or
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>At 7:19 -0700 00/10/29, Joseph B. Reid wrote:
>>I don't how to get my computer to produce an ae ligature.
>>Joe
>
>Try the combination "option + a". On my Mac with a French keyboard,
>it effectively gives an "æ" ligature.
>
>Bill, your "æ" was received correctly on my Mac with Eudora
>
>Louis
T
>I asked because the type of ounce (US or UK) affects its size and hence
>the conversion to milliliters.
>
>Jim
>
>kilopascal wrote:
>>
>> 2000-10-29
>>
>> I think it was the floozy ounce. I keep forgetting, there is more than one
>> type. Why, do you ask?
>>
>> John
It would surely be dishone
On this subject Chris Keenan wrote on 1999-01-24:
"[English] Beer was originally in half-pint and three-quarter pint cans [284
mL & 426 mL]. However, they were never labelled as such; I believe the
regulations at the time forced them to say 9 2/3 fl oz and 14 2/3 fl oz.
440 ml was the closest 'me
I've noticed the last couple time I've flown on United that their
Hemispheres monthly magazine uses mostly metric when referring to
foreign destinations. In the October issue, "15 Fascinating Facts: New
Zealand" uses one distance in miles in the sub-title, but otherwise the
units are SI only with
>I'm not surprised that people don't go around figuring their fuel
>consumption, whether it is in litres per 100 kilometres, or miles per
>gallon. What purpose is there in it anyway? If you already own the car and
>you have to get around, what reason would you care how much fuel it burns?
>Ther
Please ignore my response, below.
Brain fart.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Bill Potts
> Sent: 2000, October 30 06:48
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:
"Hooper, Bill and or Barbara" wrote:
> > The cm and cL are two of the most useful units in everyday-metric system.
>
> I don't argue that they are not used at all but only that they are less used
> than the powers of 1000. Gustaf's opinion is that they are among "the most
> useful units". My pers
There was an interesting article in a magazine called "World Highways"
which is always 100% metric although its published in England. Even
articles about US Construction are SI.
Headline:"Going the Extra Mile"
it was about asphalt plants.
Guess some figures of speech will remain with us fo
Bill Hooper wrote:
> A system of prefixes that consist only of powers of 1000
I think you mean "every 3rd power of 10."
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
Quoten "Hooper, Bill and or Barbara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Han criticizes my argument against learning and using the prefixes centi
> deci deka and hecto by saying:
>
> > From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [USMA:8839] Re: Cribsheet
> >
> > The prefixes centi-, deci-, deca and
There used to be a prefix for 10 000, namely, myria. One can see it
listed in the U.S.'s Metric Act of 1866.
It is all well and good for people to have their preferences for use or
nonuse, but those are personal opinions which a person my reflect in his
or her usage of the SI. The authority for t
Han criticizes my argument against learning and using the prefixes centi
deci deka and hecto by saying:
> From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [USMA:8839] Re: Cribsheet
>
> The prefixes centi-, deci-, deca and hecto are fully recognized side by side
> with the 1000-pattern and Gusta
We always have to be careful about numbers such asa those in Chris Keenan's
message (below), not because they are wrong (they're NOT), but because they
can be used in CORRECT statements to give INCORRECT impressions.
One can correctly say that 68% of the people want to keep imperial measures.
Th
John asks (see below) "what reason would you care how much fuel (your car)
burns?"
I regularly check my fuel economy, John. I do it to make sure my vehicles
are running properly. A sudden change in fuel consumption rates may indicate
a mechanical problem. Gradual changes indicate the gradually i
Gustaf asks:
> From: Gustaf Sjöberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [USMA:8830] Re: Cribsheet
>
> What is this idea about only using 1000-multiples?
The idea is that, of the twenty (20) prefixes in SI, sixteen (16) are powers
of 1000 and only four (4) are not. Those four are deci, centi, deka an
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