I tend to agree with Mr. Wade in using the liter over meter-cubed. Although the liter is not an official base unit of SI, it is more convenient to use the prefixes in regards to unit-conversion than meter-cubed. The liter is also more convenient to speak of than meter-cubed.
-- -----Thanks!----- Cole Kingsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------- > >I don't believe anything I wrote earlier contradicted what you wrote > >below. Specifically I do not believe I said that the litre is > >deprecated for non-precision use. I said that I understood it to be > >advisable not to use the SI prefixes with litre; for example, since > >1000 L = 1 m^3, therefore the cubic metre should be used, not the > >kilolitre. > > But this would negate one of the main advantages of the liter: the fact that > it follows the 'normal' linear use of prefixes. Translating milliliters into > liters or back is as easy as converting between millimeters and meters. > > Whereas I see the need for converting to cubic meters when coherence is > required (e.g. calculating densities etc), to suggest that we shouldn't use > milliliters (almost universally used on soda cans here) or centiliters (widely > used in the wine industry) would be a huge own goal. Remember, the aim is > to encourage the use of the metric system. Adopting strategies that make > it more difficult are definitely counterproductive. Liters are probably > the metric units that most Americans are familiar with, thanks to Coca Cola. > Lets be grateful for that. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Tom Wade | EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > EuroKom | X400: g=tom;s=wade;o=eurokom;p=eurokom; > Unit A2 | a=eirmail400;c=ie > Nutgrove Office Park | Tel: +353 (1) 296-9696 > Rathfarnham | Fax: +353 (1) 296-9697 > Dublin 14 | Disclaimer: This is not a disclaimer > Ireland | Tip: "Friends don't let friends do Unix !" >
