Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:59:49 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Abbreviating units (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c) Message-ID: <20020107105949.H45844@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020106152104.A4955@schweikhardt.net> References: <200201060458.g064w9626629@freefall.freebsd.org> <200201060550.g065oGn35131@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20020106152104.A4955@schweikhardt.net>
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On Sunday, 6 January 2002 at 15:21:04 +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. In Australia, they use "L" to represent litres. The Commonwealth Style Guide claims that this is the correct international abbreviation. I don't know anywhere else where it's a capital, but that doesn't mean it's wrong this way (just looks it :-). Can anybody confirm or deny? > Information technology is a different beast, however. You can't tell > without context whether b is bits or bytes. I'd always believed it was bits. Bytes are B. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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