From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 6 23: 5:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF43B37B404 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 23:05:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 2AC22782FC; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:35:49 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:35:49 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Jens Schweikhardt , Garrett Wollman , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Abbreviating units (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c) Message-ID: <20020107173549.A41167@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200201060458.g064w9626629@freefall.freebsd.org> <200201060550.g065oGn35131@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20020106152104.A4955@schweikhardt.net> <20020107105949.H45844@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020106173721.A3043@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <20020107075730.A9089@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020107075730.A9089@freebie.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [moved to -chat] On Monday, 7 January 2002 at 7:57:30 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 05:37:21PM -0700, Chad David wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:59:49AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> >>> 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? >> >> I've always written 'L' for litres, and my milk says 4L >> (the container beside it say 475mL) if that means anything :). > > L is not correct, l is. SI says one should use m^3 for volumes but that > never stuk for milk and the like ;) "Could you give me one millicubicmeter of milk, please?". Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message