Re: Volt/volts

[Herbert H Gottlieb <herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM>]

Hugh's reply to Jim Green's question is "excellent"
in my opinion. Let's all profit from his example
of replying with good technical, as well as
political, responses to such questions.

Herb


On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:33:24 -0400 Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>
writes:
> At 10:07 PM -0600 9/9/04, Jim Green wrote:
> > Is it correctly 0 volt or 0 volts?  Reference?

Since the number 0 doesn't need units for anything, why try to use them?
Why not just say "the potential is 0"? On the other hand, if you like to
use units with zero, I personally think that the plural sounds better
with 0 than the singular. But this is English, not physics.
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