Hi Bob,

At 12:55 AM 3/13/99 -0500, you wrote:
[SNIP]
>the ¡, out of fairness if nothing else. But seriously, "K"
>by itself is not, AFAIK, assigned to *any* unit if measure;
>degrees Kelvin is ¡K, beginning and end of story; if you
>cannot write the ¡ symbol, use the word "degree". Horowitz

Well,Bob,in some of my Physics classes, Kelvins have been considered to be
a unit unto themselves (IOW, it is correct to say 10 Kelvin instead of 10
degrees Kelvin) It seems to me that there isn't real agreement on this
point. It is probably not a really good way to differentiate,but how about
the fact that usually, with resistance, the K is written right next to the
value (i.e. 10K or 10k) and with temperatures, there is usually a space
(i.e. 3 K cosmic background radiation).

>BTW, in preparing this response, I made extensive
>use of my trusty "Rubber Bible" -- the CRC Handbook
>of Chemistry and Physics, 55th edition, which is
>frighteningly dated 1974 (and purchased new by myself,
>I must add). I wish to report that Wagner's statement
>of the rules for SI multiplicative prefixes is exactly
>in agreement with that text, right down to "k" being
>lower case and "M" being upper.

I've got the 1992-93 edition,but it seems to me that most of the material
from it greatly pre-dates 1992 anyway,with the exception of the 1983 (IIRC)
accepted constants. The CRC handbook really comes in handy because I can be
pretty sure that if a prof. says "look it up",its in there! I didn't buy
it,got it as a prize in a Chemistry competition.

>
>In good humor,
>
>--Bob
>
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