From: dmitry6243@my-deja.com
Subject: Re: Wrong SI unit specification
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:31:22 GMT
Date: 2001-01-31T09:31:22+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <958m1a$u22$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.980920852.21769.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
In article <mailman.980920852.21769.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>,
comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:
> In this group, where so many people are eager to correct anybody
> writing ADA instead of Ada, it astonishes me so often that wrong SI
> unit names are used.
>
> Just a late quote:
>
> > (1) On Solaris (>=2.6 or so, I think) the default operating system
> > tick is 10 mS.
>
> mS is NOT Millisecond, it is Millisiemens, where Siemens (in former
> times also called Mho) is the inverse of Ohm.
I believe, Millisiemens is also wrong. Correct would be millisiemens.
> >>> SI units are case-sensitive. <<<
>
> Ms is Megasecond
>
> Also kilo is not K, but k, so Km is wrong.
And ft is not foot, but femtoton (:-))
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2001-01-31 5:51 Wrong SI unit specification Christoph Grein
2001-01-31 9:31 ` dmitry6243 [this message]
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2001-01-31 12:59 Christoph Grein
2001-01-31 15:12 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
2001-02-02 22:02 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-02-04 16:30 ` Gene Nygaard
2001-02-10 16:33 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-02-12 9:43 ` dmitry6243
2001-01-31 15:12 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
2001-01-31 16:03 ` Ian Wild
2001-02-04 16:36 ` Gene Nygaard
2001-01-31 22:25 ` Singlespeeder
2001-01-31 23:16 ` Keith Thompson
2001-02-02 12:54 ` dmitry6243
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