14 May
2009
14 May
'09
5:16 p.m.
Javier Ángel Velázquez Muriel wrote: > 1) Make things explicit, please. Daniel's suggestion is right. > 2) And use the International System, please. No paper is accepted if the > units are not in the IS, so I don't see any reason not to use them. > Other units should be secondary.
I don't think SI units are a very sensible idea - the SI unit of distance is the meter. We'd have lots of precision problems if we defined everything in meters (and I've actually seen lots of papers that use distance measures other than meters, such as angstroms or nanometers). Angstroms don't have this problem, of course.
If you're referring to my suggestion to use yards, your sarcasm detector may need servicing. ;)
Ben
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