From: "Singlespeeder" <singlespeeder@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: Wrong SI unit specification
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:25:02 -0000
Date: 2001-01-31T22:25:02+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <95a33n$nm$1@plutonium.btinternet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.980946140.11902.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
"Christoph Grein" <christoph.grein@eurocopter.de> wrote in message
news:mailman.980946140.11902.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
> dmitry6243@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> > I believe, Millisiemens is also wrong. Correct would be millisiemens.
>
> No, only the abbreviated form is specified.
>
> > And ft is not foot, but femtoton (:-))
>
> Again no, since ton (1 ton = 1Mg) is no official SI unit, so it can't get
a
> prefix. :-b
>
> Christoph
>
>
Isn't the SI version a tonne and the (ahem) "proper" version the ton. Or am
I just getting mixed up.
Not having a prefix should not be confused with not having abbreviations
since so-called Imperial units predate the SI units, e.g cwt for
hundred-weight, which is of course 100lbs in the USA, but 112lbs here in the
UK. Of historical note the British often had several versions of the same
measure; the founding fathers eventually settled on one version, whilst we
settled on another.
So what is the short-hand for cubit?
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-31 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-31 12:59 Wrong SI unit specification Christoph Grein
2001-01-31 15:12 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
2001-02-02 22:02 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-02-04 16:30 ` Gene Nygaard
2001-02-10 16:33 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-02-12 9:43 ` dmitry6243
2001-02-12 5:25 ` Wrong SI unit specification (& restore Ada relevance somewhat) The Ludwig Family
2001-02-12 6:54 ` SI and German Language (irrelevant, was: Wrong SI unit ...) Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-02-12 16:41 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
2001-02-12 20:01 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-02-13 15:36 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-02-13 16:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-02-13 22:53 ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-12 15:03 ` Wrong SI unit specification (& restore Ada relevance somewhat) Ira D. Baxter
2001-02-12 18:39 ` Karel Thoenissen
2001-01-31 15:12 ` Wrong SI unit specification Howard W. LUDWIG
2001-01-31 16:03 ` Ian Wild
2001-02-04 16:36 ` Gene Nygaard
2001-01-31 22:25 ` Singlespeeder [this message]
2001-01-31 23:16 ` Keith Thompson
2001-02-02 12:54 ` dmitry6243
2001-02-02 16:29 ` Wrong SI unit specification (non-Ada relevant) Robert Dewar
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2001-01-31 5:51 Wrong SI unit specification Christoph Grein
2001-01-31 9:31 ` dmitry6243
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