"Wayne Lundberg" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"Wayne Lundberg" wrote in message
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"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote in message
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Right - that was for Canada and Mexico. One thing - a Liter is not
SI
metric.
It is 'old school' metric.

But the high up managers are 'old school' so we understand!

Martin

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You mean one liter is no longer one thousand cubic centimeters weighing
one
gram each so a liter of water is one kilogram, and there are a
thousand
millimeters to a meter?

The liter is not a "legal" SI unit. The SI unit is the cubic decimeter.
And
"weight" is an ambiguous term that is not accepted under the standard.

And one calorie is one cubic centimeter of water
heated by one degree Celsius?

The calorie is not a "legal" SI unit, either.

Use of the SI vs. cgm continues to be unsettled in many fields.

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Ed Huntress


Wow! What an eye opener. It would appear to even a blind person that
whoever
is running this SI operation is self destructing. They got a toe-hold, now
they want the moon!

Same thing is happening with the ISO 9000 debacle --- got a good start,
now
stalling because it was mostly hype to those who actually certified --
good
for press releases, lousy for the folk on the factory floor. I know. I was
there.

So... bottom line.... the metrication movement must rely on traditional
inch/lb/hp standards to even be credible. So... why bother changing a
working system. My original question.

Ha! Well, I wouldn't go that far. I'd say that they have had mixed success
in "cleaning up" the metric system itself. There are units that are in
common use (kgm, for kilogram [mass]; calorie; liter; micron), for the same
reason many of our inch/Imperial units are in common use: they relate to
experience of the senses, or they apply a single dimension to a commonly
used unit when the SI demands multiple-dimension units.

Converting the world from cgs to SI remains a work in progress, after close
to 50 years.

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Ed Huntress