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[quote user="RME"]Now you are putting words in my mouth to say something just the opposite of what I was discussing. Are you by some chance a climate scientist? Big Smile[/quote] Perhaps I misunderstood you. Thats quite easy in foreign language. But among others you said: "The meter is too long; the millimeter too short, the degree C too coarse without a decimal, the unit of pressure almost hopeless ... the scheme takes little interest in human-scale units.  Sure, there is the decimeter ... but that's deprecated under SI (which is different from cgs or mks measurements)." I didn't intend to put words in your mouth. I'm a civil engineer (structural design) having worke my whole professional life with [mm] (steel structures) and[m] (concrete structures). I can't follow the above cited thoughts. I can't understand the reason and use of human-scale measurements. [quote user="RME"]An international convention that standardized on a legitimate human-scale metric, like an "inch" at 2.5 "cm" could easily resolve all that petty stupidity at a stroke.[/quote] But what for. The meter could easily be the standard too. [quote user="RME"]The reason I dislike the 'meter', to make it a bit clearer, is that it pretends to be a logically-derived number when most of its history plainly indicates it is essentially pseudoscientific in any "natural" derivation from human measurements made for human purposes.[/quote] I'm sure you know that the definitions of kilogram and second are similar arbitrarily. As is inch. Reading my post I think I really don't understand your intentions. Regards, Volker
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