[sdiy] Rest In Peace Bob

[Ian Fritz]

At 07:58 PM 8/23/05, Peter Grenader wrote:
>Actually, the lower case would not *necessarily* be required for a 'Moog'.
>
>An example  -  a dB of course is a decibel.

Yes, a "decibel" with a lower case "b".

>  Ever wonder why the B is
>capitalized in the abbreviation?

It isn't always. See the old Bell Labs books on acoustics by Olson. They 
always used to use db.

>The term was introduced by Bell Labs and
>named after Alexander Graham Bell, hence it is always capitalized in use.

No, it is capatalized because the SI committee decided to do names that 
way.  E.g., 1 N = one newton.

You are confused betweem the name of the unit and its abreviation.