[Elecraft] [Way (OT)] Pedantic comment about metric usage

[Walter Underwood]

I guess you wouldn’t be a fan of my recent blog post.

https://observer.wunderwood.org/2019/07/24/one-million-meters/

While we are being pedantic, it is “h” for hour instead of “H”, and SI always puts a space between the number and the dimension. So that would be 8.3 Ah. Now we can all practice typing “40 m band” with a space. :-)

I spent some time trying to write a parser for dimensioned data, so I dug deeply into this. I work on a search engine for STEM homework problems.

wunder
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Walter Underwood
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> On Jul 30, 2019, at 8:47 AM, Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com> wrote:
> 
> Since I'm studying to be a curmudgeon... :-)
> 
> A recent post mentioned a 8300mAh battery*. That should have been written as an 8.3AH battery. Also we should be dealing in bels, not decibels, megameters instead of thousands of kilometers etc.
> 
> 73 Bill AE6JV
> 
> * Reference deleted to protect the guilty.
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