From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 6 23:34:48 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 E186F37B404 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 23:34:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 55CE8782D0; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 18:04:41 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 18:04:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Jens Schweikhardt , Garrett Wollman , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Abbreviating units (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c) Message-ID: <20020107180441.B41167@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20020106221526.C2029@gohan.cjclark.org> 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 [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, >>> >>> # >>> # 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. >>> # >>> >>> 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