• To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
• Subject: Re: What are units-of-measure? e.g., what's a "kilometer"?
• From: Michael Day <mikeday@y...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:09:24 +1000 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3F1680EC.1683F3EC@m...>

>   "The length of the Yangtze River is 6300 kilometers."

"The length of the Yangtze River is equal to the length of 6,300,000
platinum metre rods placed end to end."

Length is a numeric property that is specified relative to some agreed
physical units with which it can be compared.

Michael

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