Re: OT: SI units and precision

2014-01-06 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
Someone wrote: > At least that explains I don't need to worry that km is > not suddenly 1024m as soon as I carry a storage device ;-) Reminds me that I used to wonder if IBM sold computers in units of $1024, that is, k$. I presume everyone here knows that the serial numbers on S/370 CPUs are in

Re: OT: SI units and precision

2014-01-06 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 6 January 2014 14:42, Baron Carter wrote: > When using the SI metric system we must be accurate in using the correct > symbols. The symbol for kilometers is km not Km. Therefore kilometers per > hour is km/h not Km/h. The SI system is made up of symbols not > abbreviations. > At least that

Re: OT: SI units and precision

2014-01-06 Thread Baron Carter
When using the SI metric system we must be accurate in using the correct symbols. The symbol for kilometers is km not Km. Therefore kilometers per hour is km/h not Km/h. The SI system is made up of symbols not abbreviations. The US publications to refer to are: NIST SP330 - The International S