From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8cc219d579ff660e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-12 01:58:07 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news-feed.riddles.org.uk!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: dmitry6243@my-deja.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Wrong SI unit specification Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:43:57 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <968b8s$l7v$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <95fapr$1li$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <95k037$2pc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <963qgh$3vl$2@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.79.194.99 X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Feb 12 09:43:57 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001108 Netscape6/6.0 X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x52.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 212.79.194.99 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDdmitry6243 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5151 Date: 2001-02-12T09:43:57+00:00 List-Id: 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"? -- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/