Here's what I received as a response to my email to the National Math Panel. Same as the others, highlighting the "growing concern" over metric. Good that they responded personally, though:
Dear Sir:
Thank you for your thoughtful comments and your interest in
the National
All,
NIST SP 811 lays all this out very clearly. This can be downloaded (in PDF
format) or read directly (in HTML) from
http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/sp811.html
Appendix B, section B.6 discusses the US survey foot and [statute] mile.
Footnote 21 to the table in section B.8 states the or
Indeed. And I noticed the typo at proofreading and thought I fixed it. My
apologies. Stan
- Original Message -
From: "Bruce Barrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stan Jakuba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 06 Jun 05, Monday 09:51
Subject: Re: [SI] hard and soft conversions;
When is a 5k not a 5k. Here is some information from someone who jut organized
a 5K race. I questioned him since the route was marked in miles.
"All 5Ks in the country are marked in miles only because that's what most
Americans relate to. If a runner passes a 1K mark in a certain time, he is
Yes, the one you work with is 0.3048 m, the survey is 1200/3938 m. The
difference may seem insignificant. If so, check the "error" on the length
of, say the Mexican border (to focus on a timely topic).
Back to "hard and soft metric." I should like to stress that those terms
have a place under
