Hi, the rule is that only unit names derived from people's name are capitalized, hence Volt, Hertz, Siemens, Kelvin, Ampere, Joule, Coulomb, Farad, Watt... The complete list can be found at: http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/chapter2/2-2/table3.html (english version) Have a nice day, Jean-Louis Oneto OCA GEMINI - Avenue Copernic - 06130 Grasse - France ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 11:42 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 15 ns vs. 15 nS
> At 04:05 AM 5/22/2007, Rob Kimberley wrote: >>As Seconds are a fundamental unit of the SI system, shouldn't the "S" be >>upper case? > > Of seven SI 'base units' only two - K for thermodynamic temperature > and A for electrical current are capitalised. On the basis of your > suggestion we would need to campaign for a change in 5 units, not just > one. > > John > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
