Spot on Tom! I have always stuck with lower case k - even when entering values in a database which is all in upper case! Of course, this scientific correctness lasts only a few days before someone spots my wonderful room temperature components, dips them in liquid nitrogen and the next thing I know they are all temperatures in Kelvin (10K)!!
I will admit though, to not putting any space between the number and the unit, but I remember the look my physics teacher used to give us if someone had the misfortune to call the unit "degrees Kelvin" instead of plain "Kelvin". For your information http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/ has it all. Regards - Chris -----Original Message----- From: T.Sato [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 3:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: case of units On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:17:18 -0700, "Robert Macy" <[email protected]> wrote: > Still use KHz > > For me it's a logical carrier over from > small letter = small value > capital letter = large value SI units are originally described in "The International System of Units" (strictly, in French) from BIPM, and it states kilo is "k", not "K". Although they are very rarely used these days, "h" (hecto = 10^2) and "da" (deca = 10^1) are written in small letters, too. Regards, Tom -------------------------------------------------- Tomonori Sato <[email protected]> URL: http://member.nifty.ne.jp/tsato/ ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list" ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
