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Subject:50-ohm or 50 ohm From:"Keith S. Wilkinson" <keithw -at- LSI -dot- YOKOGAWA -dot- CO -dot- JP> Date:Wed, 9 Aug 1995 16:20:28 JST
McGraw-Hill used to have a small style guide which was produced for sending
to all contributors to one of their Dictionaries of Electronics, and then
published and made available to the general public. (The style guide seems
to be out of print.) Somewhere (perhaps in this style guide) the example
of a Government procurement was given: someone specified "sets of three
meter rods" for a nuclear reactor. The contractor spent a lot of money
cutting the three-meter rods up to make sets of three meter(-long) rods.
An enormous sum of money was wasted. Sometimes being pedantic saves money.
