Re:Seagrass 'Neptune balls’ sieve millions of plastic partic...
by DanBC on Saturday January 16, 2021 @06:18AM
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900 metres would be "900 m", not "900m".
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Re:Seagrass 'Neptune balls’ sieve millions of plastic partic...
by C19is20 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @06:51AM
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European here: 900m makes sense (and I see it a lot, 900 m (space) doesn't. I tried '400 m run' in youtube and all results came back as '400m'.
Re:Seagrass 'Neptune balls’ sieve millions of plastic partic...
by h_anna_h on Saturday January 16, 2021 @06:27AM
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I often see things like 500hz or 500g without the space. Are these incorrect too?
Re:Seagrass 'Neptune balls’ sieve millions of plastic partic...
by jfk13 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @07:59AM
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The safest answer is to consult your preferred publisher's style guide; there may be differences of opinion on issues like this.
https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html, for example, says (item #15):
> There is a space between the numerical value and unit symbol ...
(although they fail to recommend making it a non-breaking space, which I think would be wiser).
There's plenty of further discussion to be found; e.g. https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/typography-rules-for...
Re:Seagrass 'Neptune balls’ sieve millions of plastic partic...
by someperson on Saturday January 16, 2021 @08:06AM
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By the way, it's Hz not hz