Carleton asked in USMA 22943:
Carleton
P.S. How do you express "DD" in SI?
Please give context. My father and his two brothers had DD after their names, but it meant "Doctor of Divinity".
Without getting too scatalogical, the context was of a Canadian woman advertising various attributes of herself in a personals ad using inches (even though Canada is supposed to be a metric country), including her upper circumference, with the size qualifier "DD" appended to the circumference value. My somewhat bemused question was how the size qualifier indication "DD" would be expressed in SI values.
The non-scatological theme was why were people in a supposedly metric country still making reference to various body sizes using inches and pounds, even if they were born after those measurements were no longer being taught in the schools.
Carleton
Carleton
