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Re: Units of Measure

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• Subject: Re: Units of Measure
• From: David Lyon <david.lyon@c...>
• Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:23:38 -0500
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On Friday 04 March 2005 07:44 pm, William J. Kammerer wrote:
> Actually, the Newton is the SI unit of force; Pascals are used for
> pressure.  And I wouldn't include the prefix (k, m,  µ,  M, G, etc.) as
> part of the unit, instead treating it simply as an implied exponent of
> 10 (e.g., 3 for kilo, 6 for Mega, -6 for micro).  So we'd have
>
>     <Impact force="345" unit="N" exponent=3 />.
>

Well thanks for the correction. If I ever write such an application,
which is highly unlikely.. I'll try to keep this in mind.

David

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  • Re: [About Unicode] Why the symbol LOGICAL NOT is missing from the UCS ?
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
  • Units of Measure
    • From: "William J. Kammerer" <wkammerer@n...>

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