Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 18:04:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Abbreviating units (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c) Message-ID: <20020107180441.B41167@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020106221526.C2029@gohan.cjclark.org> References: <200201060458.g064w9626629@freefall.freebsd.org> <200201060550.g065oGn35131@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20020106152104.A4955@schweikhardt.net> <20020107105949.H45844@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020106221526.C2029@gohan.cjclark.org>
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[following up to -chat] On Sunday, 6 January 2002 at 22:15:26 -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:59:49AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> 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? > > Liters are not SI units. Correct. But that wasn't the question. 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
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