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.

=======================

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.

=======================

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.

=======================

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