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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:03:48 -0500 (EST), kludge@panix.com (Scott   
   Dorsey) wrote:   
      
   >Paul S Person   wrote:   
   >>Bing is your friend:   
   >>   
   >>A pound per square centimeter (lb/cm=B2) is a non-metric measurement   
   >>unit of surface or areal density. The surface density is used to   
   >>measure the thickness of paper, fabric and other thin materials.   
   >   
   >Bing is definitely not my friend.  For one thing, it's not a non-metric   
   >measurement, it's partially metric.  And it's a very curious way to measure   
   >surface density.   
      
   Ah. Semantic goo again. You are taking "non-metric" to mean that it   
   has no metric components at all, when here it is used to mean the   
   opposite of "metric" (where all components are metric).   
      
   Instead of a simple dichotomy, you prefer a range.   
      
   >You might want to do that if you have a material that is measured in metric   
   >units, but whose total mass is measured in American units.  That's what I'd   
   >like explained.   
      
   Fair enough. I couldn't find one, but then, I'm not really good at   
   searching on computers.   
      
   >>So, did the facility (by any chance) work with/produce thin materials   
   >>whose thickness needed to be measured?   
   >   
   >No, it was a wind tunnel.  But I think the basic source again was    
   >measuring density of something derived from mixed units.   
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