" ...my chem and physics teachers taught me to represent temperatures: 70F" Gary, how did you physics teacher taught you to represents 70 Farads ? (I know that is a huge capacitance and usually much smaller units, such as pF, are used.) We were taught to use a designation that had just one possible meaning, whenever possible. Thus using the degree sign where applicable. I know that it is sometime impossible. The two "m" in mm have different meanings. When typing using a computer keyboard, I also remember using the Alt-xxx method for unusual characters, where xxx represents the three digits from the ASCII table. However, I do not remember what number the ASCII code for the "degree sign" is. Cheers, Lubos homeroast mailing listhttp://lists.sweetmarias.com/mailman/listinfo/homeroast |
<Snip> Physics was a looooong time ago. :) <Snip> Try Alt+0176 on the numeric keypad: ° -- g homeroast mailing listhttp://lists.sweetmarias.com/mailman/listinfo/homeroast |
Gary, thanks! Now I can update my previous posting and write: "We were taught to use a designation that had just one possible meaning, whenever possible. Thus using the degree sign where applicable such as 70°F or 21.1°C etc." BTW, this is still "plain text" to satisfy those, who do not like HTML messages. Cheers, Lubos homeroast mailing listhttp://lists.sweetmarias.com/mailman/listinfo/homeroast |
70°F Cool. I never knew you could do that. I guess I'm easily amused. Free e-mail! you A service of www.WallaWallaGuide.com homeroast mailing listhttp://lists.sweetmarias.com/mailman/listinfo/homeroast |
On 9/8/01 5:26 PM, Andrew Thomas wrote:
<Snip>
Except that on a Mac that reads 'seven zero infinty capital ef'. For Mac
users to read this you need to write it as '70°F'. (That's an
Option+Shift+8, none of that nasty Alt+{ASCII code} stuff for us.)
In this case HTML may seem to be better than ASCII text since HTML ISO
Latin 1 entities are at least cross platform, although, if your email
client uses the named entity -- ° -- rather than the numeric form --
° -- it may still not render properly in all HTML enabled clients.
Personally however, I think formatting email adds very little to it and,
like any other type of document, can detract from the content or cause
one to worry more about what the message looks like than what one is
saying. If you want your message to get across to the most people, cast
it in a form that most of them can likely read. In most cases ASCII will
be readable by more people than other encodings -- despite the occasional
confusion over things like '70OF'. Isn't that what it's all about after
all?
BTW, I haven't had any coffee in hours so, if you want to mess with me,
please feel free to do so.
John Blumel
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It didn't work! My degrees symbol arrived on the list as "°". Oh, well. ----- Original message: 70°F Cool. I never knew you could do that. I guess I'm easily amused. Free e-mail! you A service of www.WallaWallaGuide.com homeroast mailing listhttp://lists.sweetmarias.com/mailman/listinfo/homeroast |
Andrew - you need to use the KEYPAD and not the typewriter keys. If you're using a laptop you may be out of luck. |
(LOL) Thanks, John. I have no clue what any of that means. Jeff will mess with you -- I will not, coffee or not.
Andy
John Blumel wrote:
On 9/8/01 5:26 PM, Andrew Thomas wrote:
<Snip>
Except that on a Mac that reads 'seven zero infinty capital ef'. For Mac
users to read this you need to write it as '70°F'. (That's an
Option+Shift+8,
none of that nasty Alt+{ASCII code} stuff for us.)
In this case HTML may seem to be better than ASCII text since HTML ISO
Latin 1 entities are at least cross platform, although, if your email
client
uses the named entity -- ° -- rather than the numeric form --
°
-- it may still not render properly in all HTML enabled clients.
Personally however, I think formatting email adds very little to it and,
like any other type of document, can detract from the content or cause
one to worry more about what the message looks like than what one is
saying.
If you want your message to get across to the most people, cast
it in a
form that most of them can likely read. In most cases ASCII will
be readable
by more people than other encodings -- despite the occasional
confusion
over things like '70OF'. Isn't that what it's all about after
all?
BTW, I haven't had any coffee in hours so, if you want to mess with me,
please feel free to do so.
John Blumel
Free e-mail! you
A service of www.WallaWallaGuide.com
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On 9/9/01 7:16 PM, Andrew Thomas wrote: <Snip> I have this sneaking suspicion that I've just been messed with. John Blumel homeroast mailing listhttp://lists.sweetmarias.com/mailman/listinfo/homeroast |
Your email program apparently doesn't support MIME quoted-printable encoding (or it is turned off). That is usually what the "=xxxxx" stuff represents. On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 15:15:47 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Thomas wrote: <Snip> -- Michael DeZelar Elk River, Minnesota, USA O- homeroast mailing listhttp://lists.sweetmarias.com/mailman/listinfo/homeroast |
Thanks, John, but I did use the keypad. -------- From: "John - wandering Texas" Andrew - you need to use the KEYPAD and not the typewriter keys. If you're using a laptop you may be out of luck. |
On 9/10/01 9:40 PM, Mike DeZelar wrote: <Snip> Email is after all a 7 bit protocol. (BTW, B0 is in fact hexadecimal for 176.) We could also interpret Andrew as stating that "70 below zero fahrenheit is cool." -- quite correct. John Blumel homeroast mailing listhttp://lists.sweetmarias.com/mailman/listinfo/homeroast |