Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))

Kai Henningsen (kai@khms.westfalen.de)
14 Oct 1995 21:40:00 +0200

ruhl@phoebe.cair.du.edu (Robert A. Uhl) wrote on 13.10.95 in <45ku2a$cha@hermes.cair.du.edu>:

> megaliter (conveys no meaning; I bet that the volume of the ocean is
> told to schoolchildren in liters or perhaps kiloliters.

I think that cubic kilometers are usually used for stuff like that. Let's
see - 1 km^3 = 1 m^9 = 10^12 l. So, it's not liter, kiloliter or
megaliter, but teraliter - except under another name.

Kai

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