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Dear Mr. Axelrod:
Please advise President Obama to issue his own Executive Order directing
Departments, Administrations, Agencies, Commissions and other elements of the
Executive Branch to use SI units of measurement in activities of the Federal
Government, reaffirming
A Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laki recounts the 1783
eruption of the Laki craters in Iceland and uses the prefix tera with gram:
An estimated 122 Tg (120 million tons) of sulfur dioxide were emitted
Tg is rare but elegant.
So is pg, or ng, or Eg, or, my favorite, really elegant(!), the Gg. Each, of
course, suits its range of sizes.
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From: Patrick Moore pmo...@asnt.org
To: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
Sent: 09 Jun 08, Monday 13:07
Subject: [USMA:45213] Tg
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This document was printed by the Conservatives for all Constituencies in the
country.
I believe it is inaccurate. While local trading standards officers may be
turning a bit of a blind eye to (primarily) street market vendors weighing
loose food items in imperial units on imperial-only
John,
Not quite right. The only areas where the UK MAY use imperial units other
are pints for milk, beer and cider and miles, yards feet and inches on road
signs. In all other cases which are covered by the EU directive, imperial
units may only be used as supplementary units. The full scope
Dear Stan,
Congratulations on this posting. What you say is clear and, above all,
based on your real experiences. This latter is important as so much of
the so-called metric debate consists of pure conjecture unsupported by
any factual insights from the resisters and retardees who are
