Follow-up here: This may have inadvertently provided incentive for the over-precise rounding in SI declarations. Since the SI declaration carried legal weight, manufacturers simply looked it up to 8 decimal places in the NIST handbook, and quoted verbatum. Simple, basic CYA.
What would be interesting is if the larger declaration ruled, with *neither* stated to more than 2 significant figures... Nat > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-usma@;colostate.edu]On > Behalf Of Nat Hager III > Sent: Thursday, 2002 November 07 20.32 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:23166] RE: Metric Forum > > > > Are you sure you heard this right? Did they use a term like 'more > > prominent' rather than 'larger'? The UK required the controlling units > > to be shown 'first'. > > > > No, that's correct as stated. It was in 1992 FPLA, that in the case of a > rounding disagreement between SI and Imperial, the larger > declaration ruled. > It provided an incentive for manufacturers to get the conversion right. > > Whether it was enforced or not is another matter. > > Nat > > > >
