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Re: [xml-dev] What are units-of-measure? e.g., what's a "kilometer"?

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To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] What are units-of-measure? e.g., what's a "kilometer"?
From: Alaric B Snell <alaric@alaric-snell.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:46:45 +0100
Cc: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@mitre.org>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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John Cowan wrote:

[various things about various views of a 'kilometre' being impractical]
> That being so, there is no point in reifying them.

Yep - my intent was really to broaden the mind with some thoughts on 
what a kilometre is rather than necessarily to come up with the most 
*useful* definition :-)

ABS

References:
- What are units-of-measure? e.g., what's a "kilometer"?
  - From: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@mitre.org>
- Re: [xml-dev] What are units-of-measure? e.g., what's a "kilometer"?
  - From: Alaric B Snell <alaric@alaric-snell.com>
- Re: [xml-dev] What are units-of-measure? e.g., what's a "kilometer"?
  - From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>

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