Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:09:10 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weed-whacking sysctl(8) Message-ID: <4D38A476.10709@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinaEz7oB=bfYEKwHjvNSMmdq4H3g=Puy3focJ9o@mail.gmail.com> References: <mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-arch/AANLkTimMsy9J5Ohj0pifZ%2B9L4_mFq5z2FwUhG8y5%2B3Kh@mail.gmail.com> <mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-arch/201101191559.07713.jhb@freebsd.org> <mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-arch/20110120190703.H11630@besplex.bde.org> <201101201830.p0KIUFx9067555@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <AANLkTinaEz7oB=bfYEKwHjvNSMmdq4H3g=Puy3focJ9o@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01/20/2011 11:43, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Garrett Wollman > <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> wrote: >> In article<mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-arch/20110120190703.H11630@besplex.bde.org>, >> Bruce Evans writes: >> >>> Also, it's not Kelvin, but deci-Kelvin :-). >> If we're being pedantic, the name of the unit is the "kelvin", >> lowercase "k", and the derived unit is the "decikelvin", lowercase "k" >> and no hyphen. The unit symbol is "K" (uppercase) for the base unit, >> "dK" for the derived unit. All SI unit names are in lower case; only >> the symbols are (sometimes) capitalized if the unit is named after a >> proper noun. (Thus the symbol for the second is "s"; the symbol "S" >> is for the Siemens, the unit of conductivity formerly called the >> "mho".) > <off-topic> > Tunables support mixed-case units incorrectly as well, i.e. > 1. 'g' / 'G' -> 'giga' > 2. 'm' / 'M' -> 'mega' > 3. 'k' / 'K' -> 'kilo' > Something that Bruce brought up in another email thread with me. > </off-topic> No. 'k' is the proper SI prefix for kilo. And all the SI prefixes are powers of ten only, but that's another can of worms. http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html Warner Warner
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