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This is a small thing, but it's a bit of a pet peeve -- capitalization matters in SI units. A capital N is a newton, the unit of force. In the EE Times headline
by AdamH12113 3y ago
This is a small thing, but it's a bit of a pet peeve -- capitalization matters in SI units. A capital N is a newton, the unit of force. In the EE Times headline the N is correctly lowercased to spell "nm" -- nanometers.
See also: "mHz" being used to mean "megahertz" when it actually spells "millihertz". It's rarely ambiguous, but it's still wrong.
- airstrike 3y agoHN "fixes" capitalization upon submission... but if the user goes back and edits the title ex-post, it respects those capitalization decisions. OP probably doesn't know that or did not notice the capitalization
- cubefox 3y agoIt seems I can't edit it anymore now.
- amalcon 3y agoIt's a little more problematic than usual in this case because a Nm would then be a newton-meter, which is a joule, which is not only common in general but relevant to electronics.
- replygirl 3y agoJoules are about as likely to come up in this thread as coulombs
- epolanski 3y ago"Nm" is the unit of measurement of torque.
- striking 3y ago3nm, 5nm, and so on are all just marketing terms completely disconnected from silicon geometry anyway. I get that it might be slightly confusing to see it misspelled, but it's still not that important.