From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,8cc219d579ff660e
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-31 14:21:07 PST
Path: 
 supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!grolier!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!mendelevium.btinternet.com!not-for-mail
From: "Singlespeeder" <singlespeeder@btinternet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Wrong SI unit specification
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:25:02 -0000
Organization: BT Internet
Message-ID: <95a33n$nm$1@plutonium.btinternet.com>
References: <mailman.980946140.11902.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: host213-1-77-222.btinternet.com
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400
Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4788
Date: 2001-01-31T22:25:02+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


"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