My daughter is training to be a pharmacy technician.
One of the things they emphasize, over and over, is that the decimal point
must always be preceded by a zero.
Incidentally, she's getting straight A's, with a Grade Point Average of 4.0.
(For those outside the U.S., who may not know the system, that's a perfect
score.)
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Han Maenen
> Sent: January 04, 2001 23:38
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:10270] Decimal points. Was: Re: Downsizing.
>
>
> There was no 5 L softdrink bottle,but a .5 L or, more clearly, a 0.5 L
> bottle. The point was hardly visible; one more argument against using
> decimal fractions beginning with a point. In medicine this could
> (and will)
> lead to fatal errors. It cost the life of a British baby in the 1970s. A
> commission that investigated the case recommended reverting to British
> Imperial medical weights and measures! Presumably these had always been
> error-free; only, what happens if you confuse drams with drachms? Or when
> you confuse the avdp dram with the apothecary's dram? The later
> two differ
> as much as the pound avdp. and the kilogram!
>
> Han
>
> ---- Original Message -----
> From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, 2001 January 05, 06:08
> Subject: [USMA:10256] Downsizing.
>
>
> <snip>
>
> > Howard,
> >
> > I have never seen a 5 L soft drink bottle? The largest I've
> seen is 3 L.
> > Is this a new size in your area? That would have to be drunk
> fast, or the
> > drink will go flat.
> >
> > Gl�ckliches Neues Jahr!
> > Happy New Year!
> >
> > John
> >
> > Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrt�mlich glaubt
> > frei zu sein.
> >
> > There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe
> they
> > are free!
> >
> > Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Howard Ressel
> > Sent: Thursday, 2001-01-04 08:22
> > To: U.S. Metric Association
> > Subject: [USMA:10220] Pringles potato chips going metric -Reply
>
> <snip>
>
> > We all know about the .5 L coke bottles. It seams that the size itself
> may
> > have originated from Coke HQ but each bottler labels it the
> way they see
> > fit. In NY its clearly labeled .5 L, in Florida it was labeled
> > 16.9 oz. (primary labels on the carton, I didn't scrutinize the legal
> label on the
> > bottles). I wonder if some bottlers labeled the 2 L bottles as
> 67.6 oz.
> at first and
> > gradually migrated to 2 L as it became more acceptable to the public
> > anybody remember?
> >
> > Howard Ressel, Metric Manager
> > New York State Department of Transportation, Region 4
> >
> <snip>
>
>
>
