ok. The syntax matters. But, It??s not like a math error would??ve resulted. A ch squared, a square ch.
i make that same syntax error with cubic meters. But I get the arithmetic right. I??m not publishing a white paper.
however, I am running into others that ain??t a clue of ch rods and links.?ÿ
I have had similar issues with the use of our language regarding area measurements. Once a client was wanting me to create a two-acre square tract. I pointed out how the county insisted you have at least three acres to allow for installation of onsite sewer treatment means. He couldn't figure out why that would be a problem. After a couple of minutes of confusion he clarified that he wanted his tract to be two acres east to west and two acres north to south. Ah!?!?!?!? He wanted a total of four acres that was in the shape of a square. I have had others tell me they want their tract to be five acres long by four acres wide.
At the other end of the scale, I worked for IBM designing integrated circuits around the year 2000. One of the databases we used stored lengths as an integer. One database unit equals 0.01 ?¬m = 10 nm. We were worried it might not be small enough.
10 nm. We were worried it might not be small enough.
Features smaller than that are now in production.
