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From: billw@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM (William C Wickes)
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Subject: Re: Re: Mailordering the HP48sx / and my first impressions
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Date: 21 Mar 90 21:57:06 GMT
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(1) Certainly a mole is not a unit of mass.  But that doesn't mean we
can't include it in the MASS menu--it doesn't quite rate a menu of its own.
There are several other unit menus in which all entries do not have
the same dimensionality.

(2) From "The International System of Units" (National Bureau of Standards,
1981): "The unit of thermodynamic temperature is the 'kelvin'."
It is not capitalized, and is pluralized when appropriate.  Analogous
to "newton," which was named after Newton.  Old usage was "degrees Kelvin."
There are many nits to pick, but this isn't one of them.