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Re: questions & comments
- To: Ulrik Vieth <vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de>
- Subject: Re: questions & comments
- From: Rebecca and Rowland <rebecca@astrid.u-net.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 20:12:44 +0100
- Cc: hshlgaii@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de, Thierry.Bouche@ujf-grenoble.fr, fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk
- In-Reply-To: <199807090935.LAA19932@attila.uni-duesseldorf.de>
- References: <l03130305b1c9c1d75d19@[194.119.133.3]> (message from Rebeccaand Rowland on Thu, 9 Jul 1998 01:45:02 +0100)
At 11:35 am +0200 9/7/98, Ulrik Vieth wrote:
>Rowland wrote:
>
>> It depends on what you mean by `correct'. As far as I can tell the
>> correct way to write the SI unit `gauss' is like that.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Sorry, but as a physicist I have to object here: `Gauss' (whatever you
>want to spell it) is _not_ an SI unit. The SI unit for the magnetic
>field is acutally Tesla (T), which relates to Gauss (G) as 1 T = 1 kG.
Oh yes... (it's been a while since I've played with magnetism) btw, as a
physicist myself (albeit not a good one), I suppose I ought to continue
with this nit-picking my pointing out that the physical unit `gauss' should
be written in English with a lower-case `g' unless starting a sentence.
>In addition, physicall units are never written out as full names in
>formulas.
But they are sometimes written out in full in the text.
[snip]
>> And you could argue that the correct way to write the name `Gauss'
>> if you're writing English is like that too, since English doesn't
>> have \ss.
>
>It is certainly the most widely used spelling in the literature.
But surely that's only because most literature mentioning Gauss is written
in English?
>P.S. in Germany we also have 1 G = 10 DM, given that Gauss's face
>appears on the 10 DM bank note, so we have 1 T = 1 kG = 10 000 DM.
:-))
Rowland.