From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Thu Jun 05 10:34:48 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 05 Jun 2003 10:34:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19NydN-0001iI-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 10:34:41 -0700 Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 10:34:41 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: [Archivist] Volts? Message-ID: <20030605173441.GW12377@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20030605171510.GS12377@digitalkingdom.org> <3EDF9AD0.9719.1EB50E9@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EDF9AD0.9719.1EB50E9@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 5612 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 07:32:32PM +0200, Philip Newton wrote: > On 5 Jun 2003 at 10:15, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > Why is there a gismu for amps but not volts? > > > > I thought the gismu were intended to include all (or at least most > > of) the standard SI units? > > volt is not basic SI; it's a derived unit, while amp is basic > (IIRC). > > volt is W/A, i.e. (kg m^2) / (A s^3). Bah. As JWC pointed out: 1 volt = 1 kg m^2 / A s^3, so ki'ogratretrefi'uxapnidnidsnidu I don't even think I can say that without a pause. 8) -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "but I'm not stupid and people are not stupid who think samely with me" -- from an actual, real, non-spam mail sent to webmaster@lojban.org http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui