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The Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (International Bureau of Weights and Measures) offers several versions of the 8th edition of their SI Brochure. Click on SI Brochure, below, to view the download page on the BIPM site. There, you can choose one of five versions. |
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Interpretation of the International System of Units for the United States |
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This is an official U.S. Government document, produced by NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology). It was placed in the Federal Register on 1998-07-28. Click on the NIST logo to download it. Although it is only nine pages long and contains no illustrations, it is inexplicably 2.3 megabytes long. If you have a dial-up connection, be prepared for a 10 minute download time. |
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NIST/Metric Program Documents on Rules and Style
Conventions
NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology) has three documents dealing with this subject. One is the 86-page NIST Special Publication 811, which provides a complete description. Download time is under 2 minutes at 50 kbit/s. The second is a four-page author checklist and the third (two pages) deals with typefaces for symbols in scientific manuscripts. Click on the NIST logo above to the document you wish to download. See Guides to SI or NIST/Metric Program if you would like to view one or more of NIST's web sites. |
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ISO 8601 Standard for Date and Time Notation
The 1988 version of this standard was one of the very few no-charge documents available from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in Geneva, Switzerland. The size of the file is about 1 megabyte. The current version (ISO 8601:2004) is available in hard copy form or for downloading from the ISO web site for 126 Swiss Francs (as of 2006-05-22). Click on the left ISO logo to download the 1988 version, or on the right logo to visit the ISO 8601:2004 page on the ISO web site. The ISO web site will open in a new browser window. |
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Legal Units in Germany Germany's Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) is the equivalent of the United States' National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). To retrieve their 10-page document (from their web site), defining (in German) which units are legal in Germany, click on the document image. (Download time is about 10 seconds at 50 kbit/s.) To visit their very interesting and comprehensive web site (English version), click on the PTB logo. It will open in a new window. |
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