From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 7 7:42:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from catalyst.sasknow.net (catalyst.sasknow.net [207.195.92.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D83E37B400; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 07:42:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by catalyst.sasknow.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g07Fgll23006; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 09:42:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) X-Authentication-Warning: catalyst.sasknow.net: ryan owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 09:42:47 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson X-X-Sender: To: Greg Lehey Cc: Wilko Bulte , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Abbreviating units (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c) In-Reply-To: <20020107173549.A41167@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20020107093252.H18742-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Greg Lehey wrote to Wilko Bulte: > > 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?". What about cubic centimetre, as in: Nurse! Give me 250 cc's of milk, stat! - Ryan, from Canada, a nation divided by SI and Imperial units. -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message