MeasurementBlog

ISO has just published a new version of the SI Guide, a small manual for the use of the SI, the International System of Units (Système International d’Unités).

The SI is a comprehensive metric and decimal system based on units and derived units. The seven base units are: length, mass, time, electric current, thermodynamic temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity.

The 32-page SI Guide will be useful for many people including engineers, scientists, technical writers, teachers and students.
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Here’s an interesting way to talk about Mathematics that’s different!

It’s one of many educational videos to be found on both YouTube and TeacherTube, a website dedicated to education via video.

We’ll bring you more later, but check the sites yourself, if so moved.

The goal of the SocialCalc project, as described on the Software Garden OLPC Home Page, is “to provide a capable, simple spreadsheet which runs locally on your computer”.

Software Garden is involved in the project of Socialtext, Inc., to provide a system based on a new version of the SocialCalc spreadsheet code on the OLPC XO-1 computer that is being called “SocialCalc” on the One Laptop per Child - OLPC initiative.

The main engine is written in JavaScript and is available under Open Source licenses. Much of the code, being written in a common scripting language, should lend itself to examination, reuse, experimentation, modification, and extension.

The latest version and its documentation is free and is downloadable from the page link above.