Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 16:33:58 +0100 From: "MH" <nomailnospamere.no> Subject: Re: 9-5 petrol mileage?
> Tons is a metric unit, but a non-SI unit, for mass, not weight, aka 'tonne' or 'metric ton'. > 1 Ton = 1000 Kg. > Oops, just found that there are US tons = 907.2 Kg and long tons = 1016 Kg. According to the SI it's 'tonne' and 'kg', not 'Tonne' and 'Kg' > I still find that UK motoring journos have a poor feeling for metric units, > e.g. when they can write that a new model is 500mm longer or wider and have > no visual imagination to spot the error. SI says to leave a space between the number and the unit; '500_mm'. Why is 500 mm (= 50 cm =0,5 m) longer/wider an error? -- MH '72 97 '77 96 '78 95 '79 96 '87 900T8 http://go.to/saab96