Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:30:15 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> To: brde@optusnet.com.au Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weed-whacking sysctl(8) Message-ID: <201101201830.p0KIUFx9067555@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-arch/20110120190703.H11630@besplex.bde.org> References: <mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-arch/AANLkTimMsy9J5Ohj0pifZ%2B9L4_mFq5z2FwUhG8y5%2B3Kh@mail.gmail.com> <mit.lcs.mail.freebsd-arch/201101191559.07713.jhb@freebsd.org>
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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".) -GAWollman
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