On 2005 Jan 12 , at 5:19 AM, ewc wrote:
<<The trouble with an abbreviation, such as gms,... etc.
I honestly have a big problem about being told to do things just for
the benefit of a small special interest group. I really do fear that
it is often done mainly to gratify a basic desire to bully others
You miss the point. Adopting a single, universal symbol is for the benefit of the vast majority of users, not for some "special interest groups".
The symbol "g" for grams, for example, is the same everywhere, in every language and in every script. It does not matter whether you are using the Cyrilic alphabet, the Greek alphabet, Arabic script or Chinese symbols, the "g" stands for "grams" in all of them. The same is true for all other SI symbols.
Regards,
Bill Hooper
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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