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From: sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus)
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Subject: Re: SI and German Language (irrelevant, was: Wrong SI unit ...)
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:36:59 +0000 (UTC)
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Wilhelm Spickermann (Wilhelm.Spickermann@t-online.de) wrote:

: On 12-Feb-01 Howard W. LUDWIG wrote:
: ...
: > Items like "kg" are referred to in English as symbols, not as names.
: > Do German physicists use different terminology?

:  I�ve
: studied physics but I have to confess that I don�t remember how I used
: these words before I became a programmer.

Pretty much my experience, too.  Sorry if I confused things. 
But indeed there seems to be evidence that the terminology
is not different, in the word "Einheiten-Symbol"
(Einheit = unit).

(However, if you go to the good old market (to by vegetables
and things) you will encounter all sorts of spellings of unit
symbols and names. :-)

Georg Bauhaus