Re: Ci to Bq

[William V Lipton <liptonw@dteenergy.com>]

I wouldn't touch that with a 3.05 meter pole.  One thing about those SI people:
Give them 2.54 cm and they'll take 1.61 km.  Oh, well; I have to concede that we
inching toward the metric system, and we all know that 30 g of prevention is
worth 454 g of cure!  (I'm not one to hide my light under a 35.2 liter basket.)

The opinions expresssed  are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.

Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com

"Cook, Lew (LCOO)" wrote:

> I think the stupid thing was changing to SI units.
>
> Few people I work with use them, still preferring the 20th century units of
> rem and Curies. I always use microR and can never seem to remember how many
> sieverts 33 microR are. These conversion programs help someone like me avoid
> making a mistake by a factor of 10 or 100.
>
> And what could be more illustrative of the point that differing measurement
> systems cause difficulties than the formula
>
> D = GEn/6 at one foot
>
> wherein we mix SI with English units of distance.
>
> Lew
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