Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 12:20:41 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> Cc: 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: <20020106122041.C237@gohan.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20020106152104.A4955@schweikhardt.net>; from schweikh@schweikhardt.net on Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 03:21:04PM %2B0100 References: <200201060458.g064w9626629@freefall.freebsd.org> <200201060550.g065oGn35131@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20020106152104.A4955@schweikhardt.net>
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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 abbreviations only. The abbreviation for "volt" is "V." See section 6.1.2: http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/sec06.html More info, http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/ -- "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 cvs-all" in the body of the message
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