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Nope. The purpose of SI was to honor dead scientists before they were
forgotten.
If you can\'t solve the problem, become part of the problem:
\"List of humorous units of measurement\"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement
Add to your list, ...
hPa (hectopascals or 100 Pa)
Add to your list, ...
hPa (hectopascals or 100 Pa)
Add to your list, ...
hPa (hectopascals or 100 Pa)
In article <5rlbhfdvkvr2de87ibk4ud4oimvh29nrs9@4ax.com>,
jeffl@cruzio.com says...
Add to your list, ...
hPa (hectopascals or 100 Pa)
That\'s what I have been accustomed to hearing European coastal weather
forecasters using. Not sure that SI allows for any multiplier other than
powers of 1000...
In article <5rlbhfdvkvr2de87ibk4ud4oimvh29nrs9@4ax.com>,
jeffl@cruzio.com says...
Add to your list, ...
hPa (hectopascals or 100 Pa)
That\'s what I have been accustomed to hearing European coastal weather
forecasters using. Not sure that SI allows for any multiplier other than
powers of 1000...
On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 18:12:53 +0100, Clive Arthur
cliveta@nowaytoday.co.uk> wrote:
On 20/07/2020 16:52, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
snip
Weather maps and reports use inches of mercury here. A bad hurricane
can get down to something like 28.
Millibars here.
Shop and tire pressures are in PSI.
How do Europeans measure tire pressure?
Bars - a bar is defined as 100kPa which is pretty much sea-level
atmospheric pressure.
In the UK psi are often used too, though for tyres, not tires.
We use all SI for engineering, except PCB layout is in decimal inches.
At least we don\'t work in fractions. Much.
It\'s a shame an inch isn\'t 25.6mm instead of 25.4mm.
In the early days of Rubylith/Xacto IC design, it was agreed that 1\" =
25 mm.
On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 18:12:53 +0100, Clive Arthur
cliveta@nowaytoday.co.uk> wrote:
On 20/07/2020 16:52, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
snip
Weather maps and reports use inches of mercury here. A bad hurricane
can get down to something like 28.
Millibars here.
Shop and tire pressures are in PSI.
How do Europeans measure tire pressure?
Bars - a bar is defined as 100kPa which is pretty much sea-level
atmospheric pressure.
In the UK psi are often used too, though for tyres, not tires.
We use all SI for engineering, except PCB layout is in decimal inches.
At least we don\'t work in fractions. Much.
It\'s a shame an inch isn\'t 25.6mm instead of 25.4mm.
In the early days of Rubylith/Xacto IC design, it was agreed that 1\" =
25 mm.
In the early days of Rubylith/Xacto IC design, it was agreed that 1\" =
25 mm.
In the early days of Rubylith/Xacto IC design, it was agreed that 1\" =
25 mm.
On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:40:48 +0200, Piotr Wyderski
peter.pan@neverland.mil> wrote:
jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
How do Europeans measure tire pressure?
In \"atmospheres\" or bars. My car has the correct pressure hint plaque
defined in atm. This is the same up to ~1% accuracy, but much clearer to
laymen.
Best regards, Piotr
Is that absolute pressure, or relative to atmospheric? Is a flat tire
0 or 1?
On Monday, July 20, 2020 at 10:54:06 AM UTC-7, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:40:48 +0200, Piotr Wyderski
peter.pan@neverland.mil> wrote:
jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
How do Europeans measure tire pressure?
In \"atmospheres\" or bars. My car has the correct pressure hint plaque
defined in atm. This is the same up to ~1% accuracy, but much clearer to
laymen.
Best regards, Piotr
Is that absolute pressure, or relative to atmospheric? Is a flat tire
0 or 1?
Flat is zero if the gage legend reads \'psig\', and 1 if it is \'psia\'.
On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:40:48 +0200, Piotr Wyderski
peter.pan@neverland.mil> wrote:
jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
How do Europeans measure tire pressure?
In \"atmospheres\" or bars. My car has the correct pressure hint plaque
defined in atm. This is the same up to ~1% accuracy, but much clearer to
laymen.
Best regards, Piotr
Is that absolute pressure, or relative to atmospheric? Is a flat tire
0 or 1?
I thought the point of SI was to unify the use of units so everyone could speak the same language? On this ventilator I am find many ways of expressing the same pressure and flow rates.
Pascals
mmH2O
cmH2O
mBar
and another one I didn\'t even recognize. lol
Likewise I\'m finding flow rates indicated as either
ml/s
SLM (standard liters per minute)
WTF?! Why have multiple units like this? This is all in the same field really. People just like to use different units.
Damn them to hell!!!
--
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On Monday, July 20, 2020 at 12:23:22 AM UTC-6, Ricketty C wrote:
I thought the point of SI was to unify the use of units so everyone could speak the same language? On this ventilator I am find many ways of expressing the same pressure and flow rates.
Pascals
mmH2O
cmH2O
mBar
and another one I didn\'t even recognize. lol
Likewise I\'m finding flow rates indicated as either
ml/s
SLM (standard liters per minute)
WTF?! Why have multiple units like this? This is all in the same field really. People just like to use different units.
Damn them to hell!!!
--
Rick C.
- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
Torque units are equally frustrating. According to SI it is supposed to be Nm. I am always converting Nm, Ncm, ft-lb, in-lb., oz-in., etc.
We are also a chemistry lab. Concentration units...grrr! This is worse. Units can be mass-per-volume or number-per-volume. Depending on the industry we are serving, the preferred units are different. It gets a bit obnoxious constantly converting mg/mL to nanomolar (for instance). Since our software analysis needs everything in molarity, I am often scrambling to find the molecular weight of this that and the other thing. And that is just the metric units!
Always makes me chuckle when somebody says Americans don\'t understand metric. We understand metric just fine, we just also happen to know a bunch of other units and know how to convert between them.
On Monday, July 20, 2020 at 12:23:22 AM UTC-6, Ricketty C wrote:
I thought the point of SI was to unify the use of units so everyone could speak the same language? On this ventilator I am find many ways of expressing the same pressure and flow rates.
Pascals
mmH2O
cmH2O
mBar
and another one I didn\'t even recognize. lol
Likewise I\'m finding flow rates indicated as either
ml/s
SLM (standard liters per minute)
WTF?! Why have multiple units like this? This is all in the same field really. People just like to use different units.
Damn them to hell!!!
--
Rick C.
- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
Torque units are equally frustrating. According to SI it is supposed to be Nm. I am always converting Nm, Ncm, ft-lb, in-lb., oz-in., etc.
We are also a chemistry lab. Concentration units...grrr! This is worse. Units can be mass-per-volume or number-per-volume. Depending on the industry we are serving, the preferred units are different. It gets a bit obnoxious constantly converting mg/mL to nanomolar (for instance). Since our software analysis needs everything in molarity, I am often scrambling to find the molecular weight of this that and the other thing. And that is just the metric units!
Always makes me chuckle when somebody says Americans don\'t understand metric. We understand metric just fine, we just also happen to know a bunch of other units and know how to convert between them.
On Monday, July 20, 2020 at 12:23:22 AM UTC-6, Ricketty C wrote:
I thought the point of SI was to unify the use of units so everyone could speak the same language? On this ventilator I am find many ways of expressing the same pressure and flow rates.
Pascals
mmH2O
cmH2O
mBar
and another one I didn\'t even recognize. lol
Likewise I\'m finding flow rates indicated as either
ml/s
SLM (standard liters per minute)
WTF?! Why have multiple units like this? This is all in the same field really. People just like to use different units.
Damn them to hell!!!
--
Rick C.
- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
Torque units are equally frustrating. According to SI it is supposed to be Nm. I am always converting Nm, Ncm, ft-lb, in-lb., oz-in., etc.
We are also a chemistry lab. Concentration units...grrr! This is worse. Units can be mass-per-volume or number-per-volume. Depending on the industry we are serving, the preferred units are different. It gets a bit obnoxious constantly converting mg/mL to nanomolar (for instance). Since our software analysis needs everything in molarity, I am often scrambling to find the molecular weight of this that and the other thing. And that is just the metric units!
Always makes me chuckle when somebody says Americans don\'t understand metric. We understand metric just fine, we just also happen to know a bunch of other units and know how to convert between them.
I thought the point of SI was to unify the use of units so everyone could speak the same language? On this ventilator I am find many ways of expressing the same pressure and flow rates.
Pascals
mmH2O
cmH2O
mBar
and another one I didn\'t even recognize. lol
Likewise I\'m finding flow rates indicated as either
ml/s
SLM (standard liters per minute)
WTF?! Why have multiple units like this? This is all in the same field really. People just like to use different units.
Damn them to hell!!!
--
Rick C.
- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
On Monday, July 20, 2020 at 12:23:22 AM UTC-6, Ricketty C wrote:
I thought the point of SI was to unify the use of units so everyone could speak the same language? On this ventilator I am find many ways of expressing the same pressure and flow rates.
Pascals
mmH2O
cmH2O
mBar
and another one I didn\'t even recognize. lol
Likewise I\'m finding flow rates indicated as either
ml/s
SLM (standard liters per minute)
WTF?! Why have multiple units like this? This is all in the same field really. People just like to use different units.
Damn them to hell!!!
--
Rick C.
- Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging
- Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
Torque units are equally frustrating. According to SI it is supposed to be Nm. I am always converting Nm, Ncm, ft-lb, in-lb., oz-in., etc.
We are also a chemistry lab. Concentration units...grrr! This is worse. Units can be mass-per-volume or number-per-volume. Depending on the industry we are serving, the preferred units are different. It gets a bit obnoxious constantly converting mg/mL to nanomolar (for instance). Since our software analysis needs everything in molarity, I am often scrambling to find the molecular weight of this that and the other thing. And that is just the metric units!
Always makes me chuckle when somebody says Americans don\'t understand metric. We understand metric just fine, we just also happen to know a bunch of other units and know how to convert between them.
On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:40:48 +0200, Piotr Wyderski
peter.pan@neverland.mil> wrote:
jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
How do Europeans measure tire pressure?
In \"atmospheres\" or bars. My car has the correct pressure hint plaque
defined in atm. This is the same up to ~1% accuracy, but much clearer to
laymen.
Best regards, Piotr
Is that absolute pressure, or relative to atmospheric? Is a flat tire
0 or 1?