On 16/03/07, Bruce Feist <bfeist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tim wrote: > Other metric measures do have easily understandable correlations (a > litre of water weighs a kilogram, and so on). > I'm coming into this conversation late; please forgive me if I'm saying something that's irrelevant or obvious to everyone. (I did check older messages, but only a dozen or so.) Also, I might be being somewhat innacurate -- my comment is based on what I remember from learning metric in the 1970s. The link for a meter, or rather a centimeter, is mathematical rather than physical: a cubic centimeter is a milliliter. I don't know how this relates to the redefinitions -- do they implicitly redefine a liter? What's the dependency -- is a milliliter based on a centimeter, and a gram on a milliliter, or is it reversed, or neither? Bother. I was trying to supply an answer, and instead I've asked more questions. Bruce Feist
Whoever taught you that is trying to confuse you. A cubic centimeter measures volume. A milimeter measures length. So the two are not interchangeable. One centimeter is 10 milimeters. Therefore one cubuc centimeter is 10^3 = 1000 cubic milimeters. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/firefox.html http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/131/counting_crows.html
