Well that's nothing to do with metric but it does comply with the ISO standard. I believe current convention is as follows:
England: day/month/year
America: month/day/year
Japan: year/month/day
Although in Japan's case 'year' often means the number of years since the emperor's coronation.
As I understand it such a scan would need to be done with at least quantum resolution (for the brain, if not the rest). Asuming this could be done at all (uncertainty principle), would it not affect the original? A second scan for verification would come up different - at what stage would the check-sum be generated?
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Well that's nothing to do with metric but it does comply with the ISO standard. I believe current convention is as follows: England: day/month/year America: month/day/year Japan: year/month/day Although in Japan's case 'year' often means the number of years since the emperor's coronation.
As I understand it such a scan would need to be done with at least quantum resolution (for the brain, if not the rest). Asuming this could be done at all (uncertainty principle), would it not affect the original? A second scan for verification would come up different - at what stage would the check-sum be generated?