Many early typewriters didn't even have a 1 key; the numerals started at "2", and typists used a lower-case l to type a numerical "1". Such similarities may have helped keep the manufacturing costs of a typewriter down low, but look-alike symbols became more problematic in the programming age, so many font designers today take care to keep each ...

It is also sometimes rendered in lowercase cursive form ℓ for the same reason: The litre, and the symbol lower-case l, were adopted by the CIPM in 1879 (PV, 1879, 41). The alternative symbol, capital L, was adopted by the 16th CGPM (1979, Resolution 6; CR, 101 and Metrologia, 1980, 16, 56-57) in order to avoid the risk of confusion between ...

Apr 30, 2018 · For example, which of the following is correct? A: log2 fold change of A is larger than that of B. B: Log2 fold change of A is larger than that of B. I was thinking "log2" is a function na...

Jun 29, 2019 · I just started Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson and am wondering what the “L.” in the first line of the definition for “virus” means. I checked the online Oxford English Dictionary commonly used

Feb 22, 2018 · When abbreviating the name of a unit of measurement, stick to standard spellings, including standard capitalisation of those abbreviations.

Sep 3, 2018 · The usage is typically "the late."I haven't heard it used without a determiner. Here are some quotations from the OED's definition of "late" (III.2.a(a)) showing this usage is typical and well-attested (entries with "a" or "my" instead of "the" removed.

Mar 30, 2020 · In the UK we have a Conservative party. Thus you can have a Conservative estimate of the state of the economy which is one made and/or promoted by the Conservative party and a conservative estimate of the state of the economy which takes a …

Oct 13, 2014 · In Scottish names, the second capital is almost always correct - McDonald, MacDonald, etc (but note that 'Machinery' does need a capital H). In names of Irish descent, sometimes the owners insist on no second capital; I had a colleague whose surname was Macdonald and he was not happy when the 'd' was capitalized. I'm not sure how general that is.

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While chemical symbols always begin with a capital letter, the names of chemical elements do not. In running text, you should be writing hydrogen , oxygen , chlorine , iron , etc. Share