[USMA:11058] Re: Please add SI units to web page (fwd)

[Bill Potts]

Gene Mechtly wrote:
>       In Table 8, hectare is in company with are, bar, barn,
> aengstroem (umlaut expanded), etc.

There is no  umlaut over the A in angstrom, Gene. It's a unique
Swedish/Norwegian letter (a with a circle over it -- pronounced "aw"). If
you want to expand it, in the absence of the correct letter, the convention
is to use two a's -- aangstroem.

More common, though, for a unit of measure, is to ignore the umlaut over the
o and to reduce the a-circle to an ordinary a -- angstrom.

Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]