I should of course have used the present tense with respect to the Cal and
cal calories (well, Cal, anyway).
I guess it'll be some time before we see nutrition information in joules.
Fortunately, things like heat dissipation rates are now shown in watts (W)
or kilowatts (kW), rather than calories
Terry said:-
| John Nichols wrote:
| >Fair go it is hard to write down 25000 sq metres or 0.0025 km2
| >
| >2.5 ha is much easier
|
| When you start to square or cube units, you get several issues:
|
| 1. Nomenclature gets more complicated to say and write.
|
| 2. Intervals get squared or cubed an
The gauss uses G as its symbol, not g.
As the English versions of unit names in SI are always lower case, GRAM
would be totally unacceptable. In speech, there would certainly be no way to
distinguish between gram and GRAM.
With the obsolete Calorie and calorie, one could at least understand which
John said:-
| In Australia the news gives the pressure in hPa
|
| we need to cut the public a break it is probably the only pressure number
| they use and it retains the feel of mbar.
|
| By the way Barbie is metric and she should be added to the list
| I bought an American metric Barbie for my da
Hi all,
I just heard on the news that there is a new virus embedded in an e-mail
Christmas Card circulating around now.
I can assure you that the one I sent a few days ago did not contain any
virus - it was scanned on my computer.
Best regards
Mike Joy
2002-12-17
You better make sure Anne pays that bill or you might find something shut
off when you return.
John
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From: "John Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, 2002-12-17 14:32
Subject: [USMA:24079] error
>
My apologies, I sent an email to the list that was meant for someone else.
I am sorry
John Nichols BE, Ph.D. (Newcastle), MIE (Aust), Chartered Professional
Engineer
Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University
Department of Construction Science
Langford AC
Rm: A414 MD 3137
College Station, TX 77
Anne,
I believe I have sent you enough data to pay the bill if not let me know.
I can make the 6 Jan meeting.
John Nichols BE, Ph.D. (Newcastle), MIE (Aust), Chartered Professional
Engineer
Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University
Department of Construction Science
Langford AC
Rm: A414 MD 3
Gene Mechtly wrote in USMA 24062:
Prefixes applied to the gram form *less coherent* multiples and
submultiples. Incoherence of units is not a serious problem for retail
trade, but reduces simplicity of science and engineering calculations.
Gene.
Use of the tonne does not solve he problem.
Terry Simpson wrote in USMA 24058:
Gene Mechtly wrote:
> Are you suggesting that the normal SI prefixes should not apply for
> mass?
No, but applied according to the preferences I cited above.
Just to be clear, I take it that you prefer the sequence:
pg picogram
ng nanogram
µg microgram
John Nichols wrote:
>Fair go it is hard to write down 25000 sq metres or 0.0025 km2
>
>2.5 ha is much easier
When you start to square or cube units, you get several issues:
1. Nomenclature gets more complicated to say and write.
2. Intervals get squared or cubed and people aren't comfortable or
John Nichols wrote:
>Just out to interest how does one spell mitre in the USA as in mitre box.
The official US spelling is miter. Larger dictionaries also include mitre
(as a separate entry), but point out that it is the British spelling.
>And in Australia I was asked by a student if we used plyw
If you are doing drainage studies in Urban areas the hectare is the perfect
unit as it is not to small or to big.
Fair go it is hard to write down 25000 sq metres or 0.0025 km2
2.5 ha is much easier
What is wrong with using the are anyway it is a nice size.
grinning slightly
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In Australia the news gives the pressure in hPa
we need to cut the public a break it is probably the only pressure number
they use and it retains the feel of mbar.
By the way Barbie is metric and she should be added to the list
I bought an American metric Barbie for my daughter last night
all in
Dear All:
As I look forward to a long flight to Australia, I will recount the story
of reading a paper by a US Associate Professor who used the term
consistently metric ton. It took up so much space in the paper and was
repeated time after time. In the end I went back and changed them all to
A local store is selling a variety of candy products from Haribo of
America. They are labeled "Mandufactured for Haribo of America, Inc.
(Baltimore, Maryland); Made in Spain by Haribo Espana"
They are all in hard-metric sizes. The one I bought:
candy
Haribo gummi frogs
150 g
(actual label:
Terry:
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) establishes meteorological
standards and codes. Individual countries can deviate from them internal to
their own county. That's why the US FTs and obs codes differ from the WMO
internal to the US.
The TAFs are prepared by the source country or
Carl Sorenson wrote:
>>Would you report it as a "deviation from the metric system" if the
>>specification said the software 'shall use the metric system'?
>
>If you are trying to fulfill a contract, seek written clarification.
>If there is a dispute about an existing contract, seek a lawyer and
>j
2002-12-17
The problem with a unit name of einstein is that it becomes a tongue
twister.
It might sound better if the unit became just stein (meaning stone) and its
symbol could be st. Then you would have:
etc.
pst = picostein
nst = nanostein
µst = microstein
mst = millistein
st = stein
kst = k
>However, Joe, it is a multiple of a submultiple, E6 x E-3 kg, a *double*
>multiple in the format of powers of ten, ...
I think we are into angels-on-pin territory here. The Mg has to be at least
as valid as the familiar mg, submultiple of multiple notwithstanding. Are
you suggesting that use of
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