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From: bwhite@umb.umb.edu (Bill White)
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Subject: Re: What do the terms METRIC and MEASURE mean?
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Date: 24 Jun 89 17:14:20 GMT
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In article <5813@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>From article <43f1e8da.17e7e@gtephx.UUCP>, by sheppards@gtephx.UUCP (Scott Sheppard):
>> We here at AGCS want to be hip. A while back we started using
>> the terms metric and measure ...
>> 
>
>This is what dictionaries are for. (They're real hip.) It will tell you that a "metric"
>is a standard of measurement. (For example, a formula to compute a distance between
>points in an abstract mathematical space.)
>
>To "measure" is to apply the standard.

I'm sorry, I'm confused.  In analysis, a measure is an assignment of
a number to each measurable set (whatever that is.) Doesn't that make
it a standard of measurement?  Or, for another example, isn't a quart
measure (don't sit on it) used to measure volume (in quarts?) doesn't
that make it a standard of measure?

					Peace,
					Bill White
P.S.
Hi, Dave