From: Jungshik Shin (jshin@mailaps.org)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 21:23:34 EST
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Michael Everson wrote:
> According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English
> Language, page 1303, in the list of symbols and signs, it indicates
> that a symbol similar to the per-mille sign can be used to indicate
> "salinity". Nice annotation.
It's not a similar symbol but the per-mille sign (‰) because
salinity is usually measured in grams per kilogram of solution
(seawater)
If you said this to an average 7th grader in Korea in Korean
(and perhaps Japan and Taiwan as well), she'd ask back how come you didn't
know that :-). They have to cram all sorts of useless (and some useful)
things into their brains.
Jungshik
P.S. This message is in UTF-8 and includes the per-mille sign
sign (‰)
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