According to Herbert Graf <mailinglist3@farcite.net>:
>
> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 12:26 -0300, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> >
> > Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> > 
> > > One of the Italian born adjunct professor gave a rather bright student a
> > > "C" for failing to use the correct units. I thought he was too harsh but
> > > maybe I was wrong.
> > 
> > I didn't see the test, but using the wrong units means you don't really
> > understand what you're doing (unless it's a typo, of course). Getting a
> > number wrong can happen all the time, but getting a unit wrong -- that's
> > grave.
> 
> True, but I suppose it depends "how" wrong. If one were to write kW
> instead of kWh it could simply be an ommission of a single character,
> and wouldn't warrant a "C". 
> 
> OTOH, if it's clear the person had no concept of what units were to be
> used then yes, I think it's a good idea. TTYL

This reminds me of that NASA Mars probe which was lost (crashed into Mars?)
because two groups used two different units of measure (Metric vs. Imperial).

Regards,

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