cubic VVV

[Joel S. Berson]

I have only recently remembered that "The liter was originally
defined to be the volume occupied by a kilogram of water, and the
gram as the mass of a cubic centimeter of water. This would make the
liter equal to exactly one cubic decimeter, that is, to the volume of
a cube 0.1 meter (or 10 centimeters) on a side." [From
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictL.html]

Perhaps this added to the confusions, "one cubic decimeter" (of
water, approx. one liter) becoming "one cubic liter".

Joel

At 9/27/2005 03:08 PM, you wrote:
>The uses of cubic liter in non-technical sites seem to
>reflect, more often than not, misunderstanding of the
>concept, but, as with technical documents, there were
>also instances that appear due to bad proofreading,
>with cubic liter interchanged incorrectly with liter
>or cubic meter, as the case may be, within a single
>document.