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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Crystal Question (Please forgive me)
Summary: unit for frequency
Keywords: hertz  = cycles per second
Message-ID: <4642@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 88 02:35:34 GMT
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Computing in Applied Science by William J. Thompson (1984)
  I've deleted the body of my review of this book which
impinges on Computer Science, Mathematics and Science (particu-
larly Physics.)  

...  but here is my concluding remarks - which I think are relevant
to our recent discussion ...

  The only warning I have about this book concerns the author's
taste in puns.  I nearly cracked up at his suggestion that the
major contributions of the electrical engineer C. P. Steinmetz (1865-
1923) be honored by using his initials for the unit of frequency.
--henry schaffer  n c state univ