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From: dmitry6243@my-deja.com
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Subject: Re: Wrong SI unit specification
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:31:22 GMT
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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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Dmitry Kazakov


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