Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:27:09 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c Message-ID: <20020107142709.D9972@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020106122041.C237@gohan.cjclark.org>; from cristjc@earthlink.net on Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:20:41PM -0800 References: <200201060458.g064w9626629@freefall.freebsd.org> <200201060550.g065oGn35131@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20020106152104.A4955@schweikhardt.net> <20020106122041.C237@gohan.cjclark.org>
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On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:20:41PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 03:21:04PM +0100, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > > 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. > > Actually, the full names are NOT capitalized, "volt" is a unit of > electrostatic potential, "Volt" was a person. Your rule applies to Close but no cigar: his name was Volta -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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