I think the old saying applies
The metric system is conquering U.S. inch by inch
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> FrŒn:       Sean Breheny[SMTP:shb7@CORNELL.EDU]
> Svara till:   pic microcontroller discussion list
> Skickat:       den 3 november 1999 15:50
> Till:         PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> AngŒende:   Re: mF
> 
> This seems silly. How can you not allow gauss,erg,dyne,torr, and micron?
> These are all in common use. More importantly, I think a bar is a dyne per
> cm^2,so it would be really silly to allow a until but not the base units
> it
> came from!
> 
> Sean
> 
> At 06:38 AM 11/3/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >Russell,
> >Do you have a reference for 10^1 and 10^2 units being forbidden?  I
> >have the NIST Special Pub 811 (US) booklet in front of me and cannot
> >find any such reference.
> >
> >Here is the list of terms that are "unacceptable":
> >erg, dyne, poise, stokes, gauss, oersted, maxwell, stilb, phot, fermi,
> >metric carat, torr, standard atmosphere, kilogram force, micron,
> >calorie,
> >x unit, stere, gamma, gamma (mass), gamma (volume).
> >
> >These are "temporarily accepted for use":
> >nautical mile, knot, angstrom, are, hectare, barn, bar, gal, curie,
> >roentgen, rad, rem.
> >
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