21st century scientists have switched over to SI units. The SI unit of energy is the Joule. 1 small calorie = 4.184 J. 1 large Calorie = 4184 J. Unfortunately, some scientists still have their heads wedged back in the 19th century. -- Gene From: Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 3:33 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] [EXTERNAL] Multilingual numerical ambiguity The small calorie and large Calorie are distinguished by capitalization — not ideal, but it works. The old meaning of billion in England has been almost completely phased out by now, to avoid international misunderstandings in fields like diplomacy, science, and mathematics. —Dan
Rich wrote:
If you allow Nutrition and Chemistry as dialects, "calorie". Curiously, the ratios billion:billion and calorie:calorie are both 1000.