Saturday, 6 November 2010

What is the only word for units that is capitalised?

Newtons is the most common answer. Unfortunately, this is wrong and it should be written as newtons. The Austrlian Government has created a Style Manual: for authors, editors and printers. It outlines what the current practice is in terms of writing. There are lots of boring things, about how to use a full stop or colon. However, there is a whole chapter dedicated to numbers! I've read through this and noted the important characteristics for Mathematics Teachers. For example, the raised dash for negative is no longer used - rather, the "en dash" that we use for subtraction, is used for negative numbers. The document below includes 2 pages of goodness.

By the way - the answer to the question is Celsius.
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