Is it 20 v or 20v? Anyway yeah the spurious resolution thing is annoying. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote:
> While you folks are doing experiments in your kitchen, I am translating a > paper from Japanese in my office. From each according to his abilities -- as > someone said. I need some assistance with mathematics terminology relating > to curve-fitting algorithms. A program called OriginPro from OriginLab was > used for this purpose. I could scour their web page or download their > manual, but anyone familiar with sort of thing should please contact me by > private e-mail. > > > Also I would like to say something to Scientists and Engineers everywhere. > Let me get this off my chest: > > For goodness sake people! -- units should not be more precise than the > measurement; i.e., if you measure in centimeters don't report in > millimeters. If you measure in hours don't report kilosecond (ks). I'll bet > you did not leave that sample evacuated for 86.4 ks; you left it for about a > day, or 24 hours if you must. You were not watching the clock to remove it > to within one second the next day. > > And for crying out loud, learn to put a SPACE after the number & before the > unit, except with degrees Celsius. It is 20 g, 30 cm, 15 MJ, not 20g, 30cm, > 15MJ. See: > > http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/ > > - Jed > >
