it is nothing at all, I supposed he had just a bad source for the pics! ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Wentworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 2:29 PM Subject: [USMA:20169] New symbol for the meter on a German web site!
> I just found a new symbol for the meter on a German web site (the text is in > English): http://members.tripod.com/e_friend/circuit/antenna.html > > The author used a ' to denote meters (see the "German Quad Antenna" and "40 > Meter Loop Antenna" near the bottom of the page). This is an interesting > example of "stealing" an FFU shorthand symbol, as a ' is often used to > denote feet ("I am 6' tall," for example). Is this a common practice in > informal German writing? If so, is a " used to informally denote > centimeters or millimeters in such writing? > > If this practice is widespread, perhaps we can co-opt these informal FFU > symbols for our use. -- Jason >
