These 2 pages from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST - used to be called the National Bureau of Standards before I retired) will explain how scientists are using the International System of Units (SI). These definitions are the ones t:hat are required in order to meet the rules and style conventions for papers that are to be published in major scientific journals. What is printed elsewhere, of course, may or may not conform to the SI standards....Usually the intent is clear, however, so it works.
And speaking of capitalization, if many emails that I see are the sign of the future, a good deal of what used to be "correct" spelling and and punctuation may be on the way out....e.g., skipping the capital letters entirely. Maybe e.e. cummings started it all. The first page, below, shows the SI base quantities with their names and symbols, where some symbols are in small letters and others are in caps.: <http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html> This next page shows the SI prefixes for various factors - i.e., using +/- powers of 10. Factors using negative powers of 10 all use small letter symbols, while *most* of the positive powers of 10 use capital letter symbols...****except for kilo, hecto and deka **** : <http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html> _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list Liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
