Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:10:53 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org>, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Abbreviating units (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c) Message-ID: <20020107151053.E286@gohan.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20020107185239.C41167@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:52:39PM %2B1030 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> <20020106233840.H2029@gohan.cjclark.org> <20020107185239.C41167@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:52:39PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: [snip] > Hmm, thanks for pointing me at this. I can't find this claim, > however. At http://www.bipm.fr/pdf/brochure-si.pdf (or its > translation http://www.bipm.fr/pdf/si-brochure.pdf), they state (on > page 57 or 132) that they will accept both abbreviations, but that it > is desirable to retain only one of them. This was 12 years ago; can > you point me to any subsequent decision? Here's some things on SI from NIST, http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/ The BIPM website was giving me trouble. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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