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Subject:RE: Standards of converting to metric From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:26:04 -0500
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CB Casper
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 10:13 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Standards of converting to metric
>
> Good approach, but always, always, always use units, no exceptions,
> ever. Use the same convention throughout the document, the product,
> and the company. The standard must be the same everywhere...
.. and illustrated by a picture of the Mars Climate Orbiter (R.I.P.), a $200
million probe that crashed because of a failed conversion between metric and
imperial units in the ground-based, navigation software.
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