The name of the millibar should be changed to the hectopascal, which is a
multiple of the SI derived unit the pascal.
This (to me) is somewhat of a shame as I always liked bar.and in
particular millibar sounds infinately better than hectopascal.
I agree with John Ward's choice of Units in USMA 26878, but his
claaification of units is not very precise .
The centimetre and millimetre are submultiples of the base unit
metre. The kilometre is a multiple of the base unit.
The name of the millibar should be changed to the hectopascal, which
this is quite nice!
I think a more detail view on the affection on the finacial situation would
be helpful.
In anything else I wouldn't go more in detail in the first letter.
But I would encourage him to abolish am/pm and think about date notation.
don't forget other areas besided SI, which is li
I forgot, the in turn of metric road signs, I would strongly encourage the
US to adopt exclusively int'l road signs.
Bob Price wrote:
> I am writing a letter to lobby for metrication to my state's senators
> and local representative. I would like your help. I am attaching a
> copy of the letter
Apart from correcting "fisco" to "fiasco," I think a good addition might be
a reference to Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 5 of the United States
Constitution. See http://metric1.org/action.htm.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
>-Original Message-
>From: [E
I am writing a letter to lobby for metrication to my state's senators and
local representative. I would like your help. I am attaching a copy of the
letter and would like to know what I should change to make a better case for
metric conversion. I have made the letter plain text so that all shoul
Comments interspersed.
>I see a lot of discussion about non-SI metric units, and I'm not
>sure I agree
>with the general message that non-SI units (like centimeters or hectares)
>should never be used. I'm challenging you purists to convince me!
Where do you get the idea that centimeters are non-
Hi,
I see a lot of discussion about non-SI metric units, and I'm not sure I agree
with the general message that non-SI units (like centimeters or hectares)
should never be used. I'm challenging you purists to convince me!
I think the non-SI units that aren't based on factors of 10 of the base
Gene Mechtly wrote:
>You can download a copy of the Brochure on the SI from the BIPM Web Site.
>Search for BIPM.
Rather than searching, click here: http://www.bipm.fr/pdf/si-brochure.pdf.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
Gene Mechtly wrote:
> John,
>
> The "SI Unit" of area is the meter squared. The "hectare" is in
> Table 8. of the BIPM Brochure on the SI under the heading "Other
> non-SI units currently accepted for use with the International System
> of Units."
> The units in table 8 are deprecated by the com
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, john mercer wrote:
> ... I know that Usma doesn't support conversion because it can make the
> metric system seem mor dificult than it is. However when we explain the
> metric system using a measurement they are used to it might help.
A much better method is to give three or
John,
The "SI Unit" of area is the meter squared. The "hectare" is in Table 8.
of the BIPM Brochure on the SI under the heading "Other non-SI units
currently accepted for use with the International System of Units."
The units in table 8 are deprecated by the comment "Their use is not
encouraged."
A note from California: Backpacks in the USA,
unfortunately, are always sold with information indicating how many cubic inches
they contain. A rare import (the made-in-the-USA brands are very good,
generally) might have liters on the original tag. Back in the 1970s one
company, North Face
Pat Naughtin wrote:
>>I presume that you could call a square kilometre
>>a hectohectare, and a square metre 0.1 millihectares.
>
>I am uncomfortable with this.
I am also uncomfortable with it. I was being provocative. It is not good to
have a special unit name in the middle of another scale. It is
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