On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 14:56:05 -0000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... I need to see a >currently valid definition of 'metric system'.
Terry: I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but there isn't one (beyond a system based around the metre). This is why SI was developed. The BIPM/CGPM have been the guardians of the metric system, and it became clear that the original simple system had been overtaken by special-interest groups who had formed their own units (albeit metric-based) to suit their own applications which hadn't existed at the genesis of the metre. They therefore determined to review the metric 'system' (which was no longer really a system, in the same way that imperial units do not constitute a system) and SI was the result of the overhaul. Chris -- UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
