From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 6 22:57:44 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15CAB37B429; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 22:57:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g076vUO09110; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 07:57:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 07:57:30 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Greg Lehey , Jens Schweikhardt , Garrett Wollman , Matt Dillon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Abbreviating units (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c) Message-ID: <20020107075730.A9089@freebie.xs4all.nl> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020106173721.A3043@colnta.acns.ab.ca>; from davidc@acns.ab.ca on Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 05:37:21PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ;) -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message