Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 15:21:04 +0100 From: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c Message-ID: <20020106152104.A4955@schweikhardt.net> In-Reply-To: <200201060550.g065oGn35131@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:50:16AM -0500 References: <200201060458.g064w9626629@freefall.freebsd.org> <200201060550.g065oGn35131@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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FYI, # <mode type="anal-retentive"> # 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. # </mode> 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. Information technology is a different beast, however. You can't tell without context whether b is bits or bytes. Regards, Jens -- Jens Schweikhardt http://www.schweikhardt.net/ SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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