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Fig. 2.14 Helix
2.9 Useful references and standards
For links to ‘The Reference Desk’ – a website
containing over 6000 on-line units conversions
‘calculators’ – go to: www.flinthills.com/
~ramsdale/EngZone/refer.htm
United States Metric Association, go to:
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/ This site
contains links to over 20 units-related sites. For
guidance on correct units usage go to:
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/correct.htm
Standards
1. ASTM/IEEE SI 10: 1997: Use of the SI
system of units (replaces ASTM E380 and
IEEE 268).
2. Taylor, B.N. Guide for the use of the Inter
national System of units (SI): 1995. NIST
special publication No 8111.