Re: OT: Rant about degres Celsius (was: introduction)
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 3, 2001, 7:56 |
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On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:35:42AM +1100, Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:
> I've seen them both, but the official form is `L': `Unit symbols are
> expressed in lowre-cas letters excep the symbol for "litre", the symbols
> for untis named after people and the symbols for units containing one of
> the ... prefixes [exa, peta, tera, giga and mega]. ... The use of the
> capital "L" as the symbol for "litre" is a change from earlier practice,
> which was to use the lower-case "l" or script "<script l>"'. Of course, a
> measurement like the litre isn't SI, so different countries may define it
> and it's symbol differently (the SI unit for volume is the cubic metre
> (`m^3').
Wow! I never knew the liter (that's our spelling!) was not SI/"metric." As
for the symbol, I've always assumed it was either capital <L> or script
small <l> because print small <l> is hard or impossible to differentiate
from <1> and <I>.
Back to bytes, I've noticed that French labeling on disks of various types
sold in the US uses the abbreviations <Ko>, <Mo>, etc. for kilobytes.
megabytes, etc. Anyone know what the <o> is?
--
Eric Christopherson, a.k.a. Contrarian Conlanger Rakko ^_^
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