Olin Lathrop wrote:

> No, the part you are objecting to was about sloppy units.  And no, I'm not
> going to lighten up about abuse of units since it can be so damaging and
> there's so little excuse.  You were off by 12 orders of magnitude!  Anyone
> can make a simple mistake, but that wasn't what was going on here.  People
> who get sloppy with units, especially on a technical forum, deserve the
> modern equivalent of being tarred and feathered, schackled in a stock or
> pillary on the courthouse steps, or declared a witch and hung.

I guess pick your battles. If anyone tried to get a 100 megafarad
capacitor to rejuvenate batteries they'd have a hard time finding one
and might ask for clarification.

It is a great idea to be clear about units. I specify things all the
time and always try to be very specific about numbers and units. Knowing
 what the other party expects is not always enough. The most common one
is trying to specify resistors under 1 K and not having the "ohm" sign
available.

I'm not clear about the "pillary" thing you suggest. It doesn't seem to
be a valid word. You could really cause some dangerous confusion,
especially since this is a technical forum :)

Cheerful regards,

Bob
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