Re: What ever happened to French avoirdupois
From: The Ghost In The Machine (ewill_at_aurigae.athghost7038suus.net)
Date: 06/10/04
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:00:17 GMT
In sci.math, Donald G. Shead
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on 9 Jun 2004 14:08:57 -0700
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> #1) All masses have three dimensional extent so that we can use their
> linear length; their area, or their bulk, as measures of their
> quantity.
Leptons are points.
>
> #2) All matter here on Earth has avoirdupois - avoir de pois - goods
> sold by weight, from Old French, literally, goods of weight.
>
> Why did metrics abandon avoirdupoise? Why wasn't it incorporated in
> the metric system?
Who says it wasn't? Newtons are units of weight (or force).
They're just not *fundamental*, since weight = acceleration * mass.
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