To pick nits, it isn't "degrees Kelvin" it's just Kelvin or Kelvins. I don't know why.
73 Eric WD6DBM Sent on a Heathkit HW-16 at nearly 400 Kelvin. <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: r j <[email protected]> </div><div>Date:11/18/2014 4:46 PM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: [email protected] </div><div>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] ESSB - SI Rag Chew (sic) </div><div> </div>*k*, kilo (prefix) *K, kelvin* (degree name), (symbol) °K, before 1967 "*degree Kelvin*", (Kelvin - person's surname) On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Fred Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > So, why is that? Most of the abbreviations for metric [i.e. SI] prefixes > with positive exponents are upper-case ... M [mega], G [giga], T [tera], P > [peta], X [exa], Z [zetta], Y [yotta]. *All* of the abbreviations for > prefixes denoting negative exponents are lower-case ... d [deci], c > [centi], m [milli], u [micro, don't know how to get a mu in email], n > [nano], p [pico], f [femto], a [atto], z [zepto], y [yocto]. When I bleed > into the plasma machine each Fri, the blood center measures my total serum > protein in <somethings> per deciliter > > Only da [deca 10^1], h [hecto 10^2], and k [kilo 10^3] violate this > pattern, which seems very un-metric. One would think the prefix > abbreviations would be paired letters, positive exponents get upper-case > and negative exponents get lower-case. How hard is that? > > The prefixes themselves have some basis in real languages for smaller [in > absolute value] exponents ... I've always figured "milli" came from a > French word but since I speak almost no French, I'm not sure. I struggled > through 4 years of Latin in high school and I think I know the origins of > centi, deca, deci, and several others. Larger exponents in absolute value > really appear made up -- I mean, "yocto" and "Yotta"? > > So, I generally camp on 1406100 daHz looking for folks activating > summits. Please call me if you're on a pointy part of the Earth. > > 73, > > Fred K6DGW > - Northern California Contest Club > - CU in the 50th Running of the Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2015 > - www.cqp.org > > On 11/18/2014 3:19 PM, Peter Eijlander (PA0PJE) wrote: > >> It wasn't about Mr. Hertz it was about the kilo that consistently is >> written by a lot of folks with an upper case K, what I tried to focus >> on. I suppose everyone knows why Hertz was given to the cycles per >> second Phil was referring to...:-) >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
