Michael Ossipov wrote in USMA 2664:
just read some atricles.
100 % metric!!
Yahoooo BUT using -re notation.
bye
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/article.jsp?id=99993897&sub=Security%20and%20Defence
The metric bible, "Le système international d'unités" says in the
preface to English translation of the 7th edtion:
"A point to note is that slight spelling variations occur in the
language of the English-speaking countries (for instance, "metre" and
meter", "litre" and "liter"). In this respect, the English text
presented here follows International Standard ISO 31 (1992),
*Quantities and units*."
The British reprint of the above brochure bears the name of Chester
H. Page of the (US) National Bureau of Standards as an editor; while
the US reprint of the brochure does not. That was because the (US)
Government Printing Office insisted that US spelling must be -er and
Chester Page refused to allow his name to be associated with the
change.
So far as I kmow, the USA is the only English-spaeking country that
uses the -er spellling.
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