Time to write them that you liked it and ask for more.
Remek On 4/11/07, Mike Millet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm shocked that the AP has done this, but it's a good step. I've never seen an AP story that uses dual units, I have however seen a lot of Reuters and BBC and other stories but not the AP. Mike On 4/11/07, James R Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was scanning cnn.om to catch up on the news and came across an article > by AP on the fire that destroyed Johnny Cash's home NE of Nashville. > http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/10/cash.home.ap/index.html > > It pleased me to see that the two figures given in the article were > provided with parenthetical metric equivalents. It pleased me even more that > the value statements were apparently done to the proper level of > significance. > > The home was described as a "13,880-square-foot (1,289-square-meter) > home". Ostensibly the area was given to the nearest 10 ft2 and to the > nearest 1 m2, which is about right. And the home was stated to be "about 20 > miles (30 kilometers) northeast of downtown Nashville". Again, the figures > seem to be to the nearest 10 mi or to the nearest 10 km. > > Perhaps the motivation for this atypical inclusion of metric values is > revealed by the description of the value of the home: "$2.3 million ( > euro1.71 million)". This is what it recently sold for. Obviously AP felt > that this story would be of interest to many Europeans. > > So, AP can provide proper metric values --- when they want to. > > Jim > > > > -- "The boy is dangerous, they all sense it why can't you?"
