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Round Numbers#

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2013

Elton N. Kaufmann

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Type
Posterminaries
Information
MRS Bulletin , Volume 20 , Issue 9 , September 1995 , pp. 79 - 80
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

Footnotes

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This is the long-delayed sequel to the Posterminaries, “Being Odd: Getting Even,” MRS Bulletin, Vol. XVIII, No. 9 (September, 1993) p. 96. I. From Carl Sandburg, The American Songbag (2927).

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3. The verb “metrify” derives from a program of metrification intended to abolish our British system of units. It is not to be confused with “metricate” from “metrication” which is a newer quality movement term implying measurement of all activities against metrics. Not that the former could not have used some of the latter.Google Scholar
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5. An equally interesting question to consider is whether one is in violation of the law when cruising below 30 mph but speeding above 48 kph in the twilight zone, 48 < υ (kph) < 48.28032(29.8258 < υ (mph) < 30).Google Scholar
6. As one might expect in nations really on the metric system, M0D(5) = 0 applies to kph.Google Scholar
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11. From The Way of Lao-tzu (c.604-c.531 B.C.)Google Scholar
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