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 …

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 …

2018年4月30日 · 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 …

2018年9月3日 · 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 …

2019年6月29日 · 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 …

Upside-down letters, as in ∀, and left-side-right letters, as in ∃, are used in mathematics and logic to indicate for all and there exists. Do you know other examples of such …

2020年3月30日 · 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 …

2018年2月22日 · When abbreviating the name of a unit of measurement, stick to standard spellings, including standard capitalisation of those abbreviations.

2013年5月4日 · I suggest writing 2.3 kg instead of any of 5 lbs., 5lbs., 5 lb. or 5lb. Historically, however, the forms “5 lb” and “5 lbs” appear to have been used more than either of the others …

2017年5月12日 · 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 , …