Re: [curiosa] Re: Debian Centre of Mass
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:59:14PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> also sprach Steve M. Robbins (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 03:43:16PM -0400):
> > On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 08:09:50PM +0100, Dafydd Harries wrote:
> >
> > [ ... ]
> > > I don't think that 0 K (how are you supposed to abbreviate Kelvin
> > > without making it look like kilo) [ ... ]
> >
> > Answer: use the proper lower-case 'k' for "kilo".
> >
> > K = Kelvin
> > k = kilo
>
> Kelvin is a unit (which is temperature, but which *does not* take the
> degree symbol, whereas Celsius and Fahrenheit do! but y'all got that right
> anyway). kilo is not a unit, but a metric modifier, so when you find a
> K by itself, it's kelvin, and a K followed by another unit letter or
> symbol is the metric modifier.
Err, my point is that "kilo" is properly abbreviated by "k",
but not by "K".
See, e.g. <http://www.alcpress.com/tutorials/units/prefix-decimal.htm>.
-S
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