It might have been a bargaining point, but I doubt it.
We all lost a lot of famous inventor names for the work they did in that
grand experiment of making 4 versions of metric and scientific measurements
into one. SI.
It caused many a book to be re-written.
martin
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Ed Huntress wrote:
"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote in message
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A liter isn't SI. How about that!
Yes. The SI folks prefer the much more rational and intuitive "cubic
decimeter," or "10^-3*m^3".
d8-)
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