Common mistakes when using the metric system
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Re: Common mistakes when using the metric system
#2So, when using the kelvin temperature scale, it's lower case when using "kelvin", but uppercase when using the abbreviation "K"? That annoys me as kelvin is a name and even my phone wants to capitalise it.
Re: Common mistakes when using the metric system
#3I've never seen Mtr, sqm or gr.
Even as a child, I knew the short of those unit names.
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#4Doesn't seem right. I wonder why they claim cc and Å are 'deprecated'.
Re: Common mistakes when using the metric system
#5So, when using the kelvin temperature scale, it's lower case when using "kelvin", but uppercase when using the abbreviation "K"? That annoys me as kelvin is a name and even my phone wants to capitalise it.
Same for "2.4 GHz wireless network" but it's supposed to be 2.4 gigahertz if fully spelled. I suppose there is a logic behind but it's not obvious.
Re: Common mistakes when using the metric system
#6I've never seen Mtr, sqm or gr. Even as a child, I knew the short of those unit names.
A gr (grain) is an antiquated measurement apothecaries used
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#7I've never seen Mtr, sqm or gr. Even as a child, I knew the short of those unit names.
Maybe they mean "when using the metric system as an American"...
Re: Common mistakes when using the metric system
#8So, when using the kelvin temperature scale, it's lower case when using "kelvin", but uppercase when using the abbreviation "K"? That annoys me as kelvin is a name and even my phone wants to capitalise it.
Same for "2.4 GHz wireless network" but it's supposed to be 2.4 gigahertz if fully spelled. I suppose there is a logic behind but it's not obvious.
60 watts , later 20 kW.
I don't know, but it seems to me that if they wanted to be scientific they wouldn't be seemingly arbitrary in the capitalization rules
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#9> 81 uL of catalyst -> 81 μL of catalyst
Oh, interesting. NIST recommends "L": https://www.nist.gov/pml/special-publication-811/nist-guide-...
Re: Common mistakes when using the metric system
#10So, when using the kelvin temperature scale, it's lower case when using "kelvin", but uppercase when using the abbreviation "K"? That annoys me as kelvin is a name and even my phone wants to capitalise it.
I disagree with that rule. I get that people spell liter, gram, meter in lower case, but units based on names of historic persons like Volt, Ampere, Coulomb, Pascal and Kelvin deserve to be capitalized.