From: Gene Nygaard <gnygaard@nccray.com>
Subject: Re: Wrong SI unit specification
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 16:36:13 GMT
Date: 2001-02-04T16:36:13+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <95k0ds$32s$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A7837E3.2DEC0689@cfmu.eurocontrol.be
In article <3A7837E3.2DEC0689@cfmu.eurocontrol.be>,
Ian Wild <ian@cfmu.eurocontrol.be> wrote:
> "Howard W. LUDWIG" wrote:
> >
> > (...the unit name is always one
> > word, except for "degree Celsius" and its multiples and sub-
> > multiples).
>
> "kelvin"
Irrelevant to the point being made. Degrees Celsius are SI derived
units with a special name. The units here are degrees; the adjective
identifying them is capitalized in English. There is no particular
logic in why the adjectives would be treated different from the nouns,
but that is the conventional way in which it is done.
Kelvins are SI base units, written kelvins without an initial capital
in English except when it would normally be capitalized for another
reason, as the one I have at the beginning of this sentence.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-04 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-31 12:59 Wrong SI unit specification 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
2001-02-12 5:25 ` Wrong SI unit specification (& restore Ada relevance somewhat) The Ludwig Family
2001-02-12 6:54 ` SI and German Language (irrelevant, was: Wrong SI unit ...) Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-02-12 16:41 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
2001-02-12 20:01 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-02-13 15:36 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-02-13 16:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-02-13 22:53 ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-12 15:03 ` Wrong SI unit specification (& restore Ada relevance somewhat) Ira D. Baxter
2001-02-12 18:39 ` Karel Thoenissen
2001-01-31 15:12 ` Wrong SI unit specification Howard W. LUDWIG
2001-01-31 16:03 ` Ian Wild
2001-02-04 16:36 ` Gene Nygaard [this message]
2001-01-31 22:25 ` Singlespeeder
2001-01-31 23:16 ` Keith Thompson
2001-02-02 12:54 ` dmitry6243
2001-02-02 16:29 ` Wrong SI unit specification (non-Ada relevant) Robert Dewar
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2001-01-31 5:51 Wrong SI unit specification Christoph Grein
2001-01-31 9:31 ` dmitry6243
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