Hi,
On 6-10-2011 19:47, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Chris Tinsley once said to me "you Americans use such quaint words
such as gasoline." I told him that British English sounds quaint to
us. In point of fact, most American English is older than British
forms. We are the quaint ones. When people immigr
Am 06.10.2011 19:19, schrieb Jed Rothwell:
everyone except Arata. He invents his own notation, symbols and
vocabulary. He and a few others I have seen often put the units in
square brackets:
16 [kW]
This looks strange to me. An editor wanted to do this with a paper
that I wrote in Japanese.
Jouni Valkonen wrote:
However world would be much simpler place to live if they just had
used kilojoules per second to indicate power.
That would be the same kind of notation as kWh/h; i.e., power energy
expressed as energy over time. It would be much simpler if they would
would use watts,
Rossi has usually used kWh/h as kilowatts per hour. That is not energy unit,
but power unit. kWh is an energy unit and when it is divided by time unit,
we get power.
However world would be much simpler place to live if they just had used
kilojoules per second to indicate power.
—Jouni
On Oct 6, 2
As I mentioned here some weeks ago several Italian researchers use this
"kWh/h" notation. It means kilowatts. I think kilowatt hours of heat would
be something with a dot operator, not a slash.
This would upset my sixth-grade math teacher.
There are subtle differences between US and European nota
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