so you can drop author some lines to clear it! I'll keep using quadrat at the end!
by the way how would you read Nm��in german? yes it is Newtonmeterquadrat!!! >From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:16774] RE: Here's my evidence for Kilometerquadrat! >Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 13:10:55 -0800 > >Your reference is: > >1. wrong >2. in disagreement with literally thousands of other references, including >the PTB (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt) document, which you can >retrieve by clicking here: >http://www.ptb.de/de/publikationen/download/pdf/sid.pdf. > >PTB is the German authority on SI (as Jim Frysinger has already pointed out >to you). > >On page 3 (as indicated on the page, but page 4 as far as Acrobat is >concerned) is the following table entry: > >Fl�che Quadratmeter m� nicht „qm“ verwenden > >(In case your email program doesn't handle it correctly, that's a >superscript 2 after the m.) > >The PTB document contains no reference to "Meterquadrat." > >Meterquadrat and Kilometerquadrat refer to actual squares (i.e., >geometrically-defined squares), with a side length of one meter and one >kilometer, respectively. They are NOT part of SI. As I've said before, I >believe they have specialized use in mapmaking, land management, and so on. > >The ENGLISH (not German) expression, n-kilometer square, refers to a square >measuring n km along one of its sides. [This is the term (specifically >4-kilometer square) that started this entire discussion.] > >I was wondering why you didn't give us the name of the book, so I just did >a >web search for it (with the ISBN you provided). Only one search engine >(AltaVista) could find it. Here's the information I found: > >Titel: Das Vieweg Einheiten-Lexikon. Formeln und Begriffe aus Physik, >Chemie >und Technik. >ISBN: 3528069872 >Cover: Gebundene Ausgabe Hardcover >Lieferbarkeit: Kurzfristig > >Autoren: >Kurzweil Peter > >Themen: >Naturwissenschaften >Technik allg. >Einheit (naturwiss., techn.) >Mathematik >Allgemeine Einf�hrungen, Basiswissen > >Now, Peter Kurzweil may be a very nice fellow, but he does not have the >authority of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt when it comes to SI >terminology. From the very small excerpt you have given us, he seems to >have >come to the incorrect conclusion that the replacement of qm with m� leads >naturally to the replacement of quadratmeter with meterquadrat. It doesn't >of course. The assignment of an SI symbol does not affect the >natural-language expression of the unit. > >Bill Potts, CMS >Roseville, CA >http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of Wizard of OS >Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 10:07 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:16765] Here's my evidence for Kilometerquadrat! > > >I finally got the book. >ISBN 3528069872 > >Page 318 > >Quote: >Quadrat...(q) > >1) Seit Ende 1974 lautet die richtige Bezeichnung <i>Meterquadrat</i> statt >"Quadratmeter", Kilometerquadrat statt "Quadratkilometer" usw. >2) Seit Ende 197 sind verboten die Abk�rzungen: qcm f�r cm�, qkm f�r km� >usw. > >End quote > >all new definitions all valid from 1975 thru DIN and are the only legal >terms > >the same applies f�r Sekundequadrat! > >_________________________________________________________________ >Mit MSN Fotos k�nnen Sie problemlos Ihre Lieblingsfotos bearbeiten, >ausdrucken und anderen Benutzern zur Verf�gung stellen. >http://photos.msn.de/support/worldwide.aspx > the _________________________________________________________________ Werden Sie Mitglied bei MSN Hotmail, dem gr��ten E-Mail-Service der Welt. http://www.hotmail.com/de
