SI Unit notation

[murraybiscuit]

Not having a tertiary science qualification, I was rather miffed to find out that my way of writing units of measurement has been wrong since school.
I was taught that the quantity and the unit are written together e.g. 100km/h

To my dismay, I found out that they need to be separated by a space (non-breaking preferable) e.g. 100 km/h
http://www.poynton.com/notes/units/index.html

In retrospect, adding the space adds readability. But it also introduces hassles on electronic pages when word wrap is introduced and a regular space has been used.
Anybody else taught to write it the incorrect way?

 

[UnUnOctium]

School didn't place emphasis on it (because the teachers didn't know about it). University fixed that quickly. Try writing 2e radians without a space.

 

[Archer]

Try writing 2e radians without a space.

Or 100Ohms
I always used the space since its seperate words (think of how you would write it with words instead of numbers)

 

[sn3rd]

Not having a tertiary science qualification, I was rather miffed to find out that my way of writing units of measurement has been wrong since school.
I was taught that the quantity and the unit are written together e.g. 100km/h

To my dismay, I found out that they need to be separated by a space (non-breaking preferable) e.g. 100 km/h
http://www.poynton.com/notes/units/index.html

In retrospect, adding the space adds readability. But it also introduces hassles on electronic pages when word wrap is introduced and a regular space has been used.
Anybody else taught to write it the incorrect way?

LaTeX takes care of that for me

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Or 100Ohms

100Ω

 

[Archer]

100Ω

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