You are an old English-speaking geezer (or at least an American-speaking geezer.) But the modern metric system (SI, the International System of Units) tries to name derived units after people so as to avoid the problem of "cycle per second" not translating well into other languages. (In not all languages does the word for "cycle" start with the letter "c". After all, it was the French, not the English, who first introduced the metric system.
That's why this English-speaking (and French- and German-reading) geezer likes to follow the metric system style guide, found at <http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si_brochure_8_en.pdf>. Jim, K7KK -- K3 #5263 "Ignorance is the Mother of Adventure!" -- Hagar the Horrible On 2011-04-14 07:24 PM, n...@n5ge.com wrote: > Cycles are oscillation measurements. > > Mr Herz was a man who passed away many years ago. > > I prefer the use of cycles, because they indicate the exact type of the > measurement, but I'm just an old geezer who prefers many aspects of the old > days. > > Tom > N5GE ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
