Walter, When I went to Michigan Tech University, I once did an hour’s worth of calculations and got an answer but assigned the incorrect designator like you just pointed out.
I got 0-credit for the work. Lesson learned. De Frank KG9H > On Jul 30, 2019, at 11:11 AM, Walter Underwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > I guess you wouldn’t be a fan of my recent blog post. > > https://observer.wunderwood.org/2019/07/24/one-million-meters/ > > While we are being pedantic, it is “h” for hour instead of “H”, and SI always > puts a space between the number and the dimension. So that would be 8.3 Ah. > Now we can all practice typing “40 m band” with a space. :-) > > I spent some time trying to write a parser for dimensioned data, so I dug > deeply into this. I work on a search engine for STEM homework problems. > > wunder > K6WRU > Walter Underwood > CM87wj > http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > >> On Jul 30, 2019, at 8:47 AM, Bill Frantz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Since I'm studying to be a curmudgeon... :-) >> >> A recent post mentioned a 8300mAh battery*. That should have been written as >> an 8.3AH battery. Also we should be dealing in bels, not decibels, >> megameters instead of thousands of kilometers etc. >> >> 73 Bill AE6JV >> >> * Reference deleted to protect the guilty. >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Bill Frantz | Privacy is dead, get over | Periwinkle >> (408)356-8506 | it. | 16345 Englewood Ave >> www.pwpconsult.com | - Scott McNealy | Los Gatos, CA 95032 >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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]
