From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 20 18:43:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C22A11065670 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:43:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5279E8FC1B for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:43:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so936116wyf.13 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:43:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=w2r5JjVqLWUWQpJ8klQtxvgeh35ztzT/1vRYKOVmAmM=; b=X+JibJtoj2useZBzamnPw0PYueiLv+CwLzgRIeVGFeVAPw2LLC3CsZbVF+xCT5S7/O TDhf+znw8WPGLA4jyn58J0bJYEaVwiKPrx/uaNDyTfBQC8NR/Xp5h+BjYG8CE1mWFWb7 F0O4ZCgoaFz8DXZ2H8IwdyDbYyDyBlg8gITfs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=BEUspwPXozRfEQcBzN+yks2YdFpBvHedatm1acK/H5lnl4a9002TcacPoF4ACCHGYO ZDD5AWGdmXXvmrIZEbUIztFP9R8oXUTQL9UGpbaiNB5I8KQJPFOv0D11HIj4/ysxgLFm ylNRUgJnMQez3AiYB9L/MKlsyFk96wT0B8sJ0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.30.137 with SMTP id k9mr2342665wea.31.1295548998238; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:43:18 -0800 (PST) Sender: yanegomi@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.254.226 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:43:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201101201830.p0KIUFx9067555@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> References: <201101201830.p0KIUFx9067555@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:43:14 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: FolvKVPmLn-cKCCwZjh-71J6yv0 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: Garrett Wollman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weed-whacking sysctl(8) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:43:19 -0000 On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Garrett Wollman wrote: > In article , > Bruce Evans writes: > >>Also, it's not Kelvin, but deci-Kelvin :-). > > If we're being pedantic, the name of the unit is the "kelvin", > lowercase "k", and the derived unit is the "decikelvin", lowercase "k" > and no hyphen. =A0The unit symbol is "K" (uppercase) for the base unit, > "dK" for the derived unit. =A0All SI unit names are in lower case; only > the symbols are (sometimes) capitalized if the unit is named after a > proper noun. =A0(Thus the symbol for the second is "s"; the symbol "S" > is for the Siemens, the unit of conductivity formerly called the > "mho".) Tunables support mixed-case units incorrectly as well, i.e. 1. 'g' / 'G' -> 'giga' 2. 'm' / 'M' -> 'mega' 3. 'k' / 'K' -> 'kilo' Something that Bruce brought up in another email thread with me. Thanks, -Garrett