On 3/16/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 16/03/07, Bruce Feist <bfeist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tim wrote: > > > Other metric measures do have easily understandable correlations (a > > litre of water weighs a kilogram, and so on). > > > I'm coming into this conversation late; please forgive me if I'm saying > something that's irrelevant or obvious to everyone. (I did check older > messages, but only a dozen or so.) Also, I might be being somewhat > innacurate -- my comment is based on what I remember from learning > metric in the 1970s. > > The link for a meter, or rather a centimeter, is mathematical rather > than physical: a cubic centimeter is a milliliter. I don't know how > this relates to the redefinitions -- do they implicitly redefine a > liter? What's the dependency -- is a milliliter based on a centimeter, > and a gram on a milliliter, or is it reversed, or neither? > > Bother. I was trying to supply an answer, and instead I've asked more > questions. > > Bruce Feist > Whoever taught you that is trying to confuse you. A cubic centimeter measures volume. A milimeter measures length. So the two are not interchangeable. One centimeter is 10 milimeters. Therefore one cubuc centimeter is 10^3 = 1000 cubic milimeters.
A millimeter is also not the same thing as a milliliter. Read the above email again, closer ;-). Jonathan PS: Yeah, this has nothing to do with Laptop recommendations...
