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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:27:09 +0100
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:20:41PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 03:21:04PM +0100, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> > FYI,
> > 
> > # <mode type="anal-retentive">
> > # The symbol for `second' is `s'.  `S' is `siemens', the unit of
> > # conductivity.  When the Greek letter mu is not available, the prefix
> > # `micro-' is symbolized `mc'.
> > # 
> > # The symbol for `hertz' is `Hz'.  `hz' is meaningless.
> > # </mode>
> > 
> > There's even an easily remembered rule to capitalization of units (in
> > Physics): if the unit is named after a person, it's capitalized, else in
> > lower case. So we have capitalized Hertz, Volts, Faradays, Webers, Ohms,
> > Siemens, Amperes, Ångströms, Coulombs, Watts, Newtons, Joules, Kelvins,
> > etc and lowercased seconds, meters, parsecs, barns, ergs, etc.
> 
> Actually, the full names are NOT capitalized, "volt" is a unit of
> electrostatic potential, "Volt" was a person. Your rule applies to

Close but no cigar: his name was Volta 

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