Laptop recomendations

[Jonathan Berry]

On 3/16/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/03/07, Bruce Feist <bfeist at speakeasy.net> 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...