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On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:44:27 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote Re Multimeters:

Mark Lloyd wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:02:47 GMT, "jmagerl"
wrote:

Conductance is the inverse of resistance. calculated as 1/ohms=mhos


They changed "Mhos" to "Siemens". I wish they hadn't (naming it after
someone, rather than using something actually meaningful).


How do you feel about the change of cycles-per-second to Hertz?


Even after all these years, I'm still annoyed by it. Why name
something like that after a car rental company? :-)
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