On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Gerhard Fiedler <
lists@connectionbrazil.com> wrote:

> also that a phrase
> like "you need a resistor of 3k" is profoundly ambiguous because the unit
> ("ohm" for the ISO-challenged) is missing.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguous "a
word<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word>,
term, notation, sign, symbol <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol>,
phrase<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrase>
, sentence <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(linguistics)>, or any
other form used for communication<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication>,
is called *ambiguous* if it can be interpreted in more than one way".

What other unit than ohms could possibly be meant by that statement?

Chris
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