On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:38:26 +1200, Russell McMahon wrote:

>...<

> The fundamental unit is, of course, the Farad and should be capitalised when
> written as it was named after Faraday. Similarly Amp, Ohm, Erlang, Volt,
> Kelvin etc. But not, of course,  eg second, minute, metre, foot, pound,
> kilogram.

I think you mean "gram" :-)

> So, while millisecond is permissible I suspect we should have milliFarad or
> milli-Farad (or even milli Farad).
> 
>  > ...  instead we in the u.s. who do any technical work have to
> >  learn both and convert constantly, other than when it's
> > -40 degrees of course ;).
> 
> Kelvin ? :-)

Bring back Rankine, I say (that's the temperature scale which starts with 0 at ablolute zero, and has degrees 
the same size as Farehheit)!

"You learn something new every day" item for today:  "Byte" is spelled with a "y" so that a single typing 
error (omitting or adding the "e" by mistake) would not give a valid but wrong alternative, so byt and bite 
would be easy to spot as errors.  Foresight unusual in those setting standards!  :-)  It's just a shame that 
milli and micro have the same initial letters...

Cheers,

Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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