Danny,

Sorry, please read more carefully.

Check out section 4. The units have both names and symbols. Names are not
capitalized except at the beginning of a sentence. Symbols are capitalized if
they are derived from a person's name.

Ohm is a person's name, but it is not a unit symbol. The unit symbol for
resistance is capital omega. The correct unit name for resistance is ohm.

73,
Gene
W4SZ


Dan Richardson wrote:
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 20:46:18 GMT, Gene Fuller
wrote:


Nope, it's actually ohms with a lower case oh, at least in the US.


Not according to the referance you gave at
http://www.physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/contents.html

Quote:
6.1.2 Capitalization
Unit symbols are printed in lower-case letters except that:
(a)
the symbol or the first letter of the symbol is an upper-case letter
when the name of the unit is derived from the name of a person...

End quote.

Ohm is a name of a person.

Danny