At 2010-06-11T16:14+0100, Phil Hall wrote: > The litre (or liter of you prefer) has, IMHO, a lot going for it as a > general purpose unit for most ranges. Its main advantage is the > avoidance of the superscripted 3 for plain text messaging. It is also > easily converted to cubic metres when that is required (just divide by > 1000). I have to say I don't like the dam³ that has been suggested. I > don't see why the megalitre or ML won't do just as well. > > We then have: > > 1 m³ = 1 kL > 1 dam³ = 1 ML > 1 hm³ = 1 GL > 1 km³ = 1 TL > > Simple yes? And thus we have the beauty of the metric system. Use whatever you like, it's very easy to convert those numbers in your head.
Try converting a cubic yard to pints some time ;-) Paul
