Gene Mechtly wrote:
> <snip> > > However, on the high side, Mg and Gg have never been used widely, so > I recommend use of the ton = 1 000 kg, or the "E" notation. Here again I seen another argument (beyond the core one that I believe ought to be immediately persuasive, i.e. all the base units should syntactically be free of a prefix that indicates a multiple of submultiple) for a new name for the "kilogram". For example, if the "einstein" replaced the "kilogram", one could dispense with the "ton" and simply refer to "kiloeinsteins" rather than "kilotonnes", thus taking advantage of the well established usage of "kilo" as a prefix. Other higher multiples of "gram" would be reduced by a corresponding factor of 10^3 and would likely find more widespread usage as a result. Ezra
