17 Apr
2002
17 Apr
'02
9:25 p.m.
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Hans Franke wrote:
Yes, of course, Zuse, since Germans are the greatest! I was going to
suggest Zuse but then I relaized how much of a big head that would give
you, and you already have trouble balancing what you have on your
shoulders as it is :)
Zuse would be a good unit of measure, but nobody in America knows how to
pronounce it properly, so it would only serve to further demonstrate how
ignorant most of us are.
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How about
calling it a Babbage?
Well, I'd rather go for Zuse. Not only because he is
German(*), but rather because there is still no basic
or derivated SI unit starting with Z, so Z would give
a prety good symbol. There is already the Bq (Bequerel),
so Babbage wouldn't be so nicht - the same is true for
Calcula (C -> Celsius) and Ambit (A -> Ampere).