seriously, did everyone NOT get drilled on significant digits in measurements?
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:54 PM, John Berry<[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > >
