My printed copies of the 2013 editions of Handbooks 44, 130, and 133 arrived by
USPS in today's mail.
Handbook 130, Uniform Laws and Regulations in the areas of legal metrology...,
is of greatest interest because it contains the Uniform Packaging and Labeling
Regulation (UPLR), a regulation
Thanks for message,�Eugene Mechtly.�
Just in case
anyone is not familiar with those abbreviations:�
NCWM
=�National Conference on Weights and Measures�
NIST
=�National Institute of Standards and Technology�
My
printed copies of the 2013 editions of Handbooks 44, 130, and 133
arrived by USPS
I am very excited about the response I got from CNN�19�Mar�2013
21:23:�
Hello David,
Thank you for contacting CNN. We received the letter and
International
System Ruler that you sent to Don Lemon. We will pass them on to him
for a
possible story idea.
Thanks again for your interest
Maybe. What reorganization of the material do you have in mind?
I downloaded HB130, the UPLR section and reread it. I think my principal issue
is that section 6.1 appears to continue to require dual, that is, both SI and
IP
units. Permissive-metric-only is deeply buried in section 11.33,
In her article
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2013/03/21/metric-system_n_2923997.html,
ila Nordstrom states that she believes customary units are better for
estimating the dimensions of things in everyday life. How do those of you in
countries where the metric system predominates
If body measurements are so important to her, I would say that an average
span is 20 cm, the average height of to the hip is a meter or the length
from the tip of your fingers to the second shoulder; also a meter is
almost a stretched step or a golf club, If that can make her happy. Are we
in
