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[lojban] Re: Metric units
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:38:45AM -0800, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> > > henry
> >
> > xenri
>
> WTF is that, btw?
A unit of inductance. When the current through a one-henry coil changes by
one amp per second, the voltage across the coil is one volt.
Personal name units are a pain in the butt. I've thought about translating
them as personal names (la henry) with some kind of tag on them.
Do we have the "sverdrup"? That's 1e15 cubic meters per second, a
reasonably scaled unit for ocean currents named after a founder of that
field. I would deprecate all the scaled units like this one, and make
everyone use E format, e.g. "the flux of North Atlantic Deep Water was 8e15
M^3/s before Bush's environmental policies pushed..."
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