From: dmitry6243@my-deja.com
Subject: Re: Wrong SI unit specification
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:43:57 GMT
Date: 2001-02-12T09:43:57+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <968b8s$l7v$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 963qgh$3vl$2@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de
In article <963qgh$3vl$2@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>,
sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus) wrote:
> Gene Nygaard (gnygaard@nccray.com) wrote:
>
> : a "Kilogram" is kg in German, and
> : a "kilojoule" is kJ in English; both are also the same in any other
> : language.
>
> Ah, yes, names and symbols.
> Thanks for the clarification.
Yes the question is whether full SI names are symbols (as short ones
are).
To make the distinction obvios: Sekunde is the German noun for second.
As such it has an article, flexies etc. Now, from the German bureaucracy
point of view, what is the full SI name of s: "Sekunde" or "second"?
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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 [this message]
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
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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