Timeline for Is the imperial measurement system still used in the geosciences?
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| Sep 23, 2014 at 3:50 | comment | added | naught101 | MM in Roman numerals would be 2000, so they can't have that one. | |
| Sep 15, 2014 at 1:37 | comment | added | kwinkunks | I agree. I'm not sure what qualifies as the most messed up industry practice: the use of M for thousands and MM for millions (I suppose it's Imperial... from the Roman Empire), or calculating velocity in ft/s and density in g/cc. It's amazing we get anything done. | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 4:29 | comment | added | stevej | Haha pun not intended. | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 1:43 | comment | added | naught101 | "the oil and gas industry ... which unfortunately leaks out into the rest of the world" - oh dear. | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 0:56 | history | answered | stevej | CC BY-SA 3.0 |