On Sat, 06 May 2000, vulcan wrote:
>Hi Phil,
That should be Philip! Expect to become toast now for committing two sins in a
single mail ;)
>thanks for the nice background. it was interesting and a new info for me.
www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon or www.jargon.org
>but, for "mu", won't you think that it is micro of
>plain simple latin. In physics, it is taken as a unit to mean, micron,
>or micro, then it was attached with pc which were initially micro-processor
>micro-computer (against main-frame).
mu is from the greek alphabet, not Latin. It is not a unit! and it does *not*
mean micron. It means micro, which is a way of saying that a multiplier of
10^-6 is attached to the number previous. (Or you could say that mu is a
modifier in physics/chemistry, but it in no way is a unit).
And please set your mail type to plain text. (The second sin). Not all of us
use mail clients that handle HTML mail, and it shows as an ugly mess.
(I guess I eliminated the HTML, and kept the gist of the mail here?)
Devdas Bhagat
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