It's actually Ohms with a capital OH.

:-)

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

According to the metric standard promoted by NIST and most of the world, proper
names are not capitalized, with one exception. The exception is Celsius, but
only because the correct unit is "degree Celsius" not "Celsius".

Contributing to the confusion is the standard that many symbols are capitalized
even when the spelled out unit name is not. For example, W is the symbol for
watt, Pa is the symbol for pascal, J is the symbol for joule, etc.

If this stuff actually interests anyone the reference is:

http://www.physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/contents.html

73,
Gene
W4SZ

JDer8745 wrote:
It's actually Ohms with a capital OH.

:-)

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

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

Ohm is a name of a person.

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During which era did Mr Inch live?

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:35:08 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
wrote:

Ohm is a name of a person.

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During which era did Mr Inch live?


Georg Simon Ohm

Born: 16 March 1789 in Erlangen, Bavaria

Reg Edwards wrote:

Ohm is a name of a person.

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During which era did Mr Inch live?

Wasn't he at Cambridge with Furlong,
Yard, Chain and a Polish guy called
Rod Perch? I think that was the group
that first discovered length, or was
it distance? ;-)

(Actually derived from Latin, uncia, an ounce.)

In fact the SI units don't have a fixed rule for
capitalisation. When the unit is spelt out it should
not be capitalised - ohm, kelvin, farad - to avoid
confusion with the scientist. The abbreviation or
symbol should be capitalised for all those named
after people and for litre - Hz, L, V. The ohm is
normally written with a capital omega or written
in full as 'ohm'. Ohm at the beginning of a sentence
is capitalised.

See http://www.poynton.com/PDFs/Writing_SI_units_(USL).pdf

vy 73

Andy, M1EBV