[SI-LIST] Re: Language conventions
- From: "Peter Arnold" <parnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: amahajan@xxxxxxxxxxxx, si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 16:07:29 -0800
Abhajit,
The symbol for Mho was an upside-down upper-case omega. Millimho (note
capitalization of "milli" at start of sentence lol) was little-m followed by
big-inverted-omega.
peter arnold
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Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Language conventions
I like Hertz much better than cps. But I think "Mho" is pretty wacky.
:-) So... would millimho be mm and so would millimeter?
Pardon me for nonsense...
Abhijit.
Ingraham, Andrew wrote:
>>Where I went to school, we were taught inverse of Ohm is Mho.
>>(Seriously).
>>
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> It was!
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> And the unit for frequency was cps or cycles-per-second.
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> Times change.
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> :-)
> Andy
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