Desk Companion
Subtitle: How to Measure, Convert, Calculate and Define Practically Anything (Economist)
Publisher: Wiley
Published: June 1, 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780471249535
First sentence: The system outlined here is the modern form of the metric system, referred to as the International System of Units (Systeme International d'Unites, or SI), as agreed at the General Conference on Weights and Measures (Conference Generale des Piods et Mesures - CGPM) which meets in Paris at regular intervals.
Table of contents: title: Part 1 : Systems of measurement; title: Part 2 : A-Z of definitions, terms and special measurements; title: Part 3 : Conversion tables; title: Part 4 : Appendices