From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 7 15:11:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B976937B404; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:11:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-33qtmto.dsl.mindspring.com ([199.174.219.184] helo=gohan.cjclark.org) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16NivR-0006pA-00; Mon, 07 Jan 2002 15:11:34 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by gohan.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g07NAvc01418; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:10:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:10:53 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Greg Lehey Cc: Wilko Bulte , Jens Schweikhardt , Garrett Wollman , Matt Dillon , chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Abbreviating units (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c) Message-ID: <20020107151053.E286@gohan.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020107185239.C41167@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:52:39PM +1030 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 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