From: Jay Belanger Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:18:09 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (Predefined Units): Use `alpha' for the fine structure constant. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.0.90~6388 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bd4244cbf85e5c46d4331a1bc0bbac2771a06a82;p=emacs.git (Predefined Units): Use `alpha' for the fine structure constant. --- diff --git a/man/ChangeLog b/man/ChangeLog index 0a225d2f93f..85c86efe227 100644 --- a/man/ChangeLog +++ b/man/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2005-10-23 Jay Belanger + + * calc.texi (Predefined Units): Use `alpha' for the fine structure + constant. + 2005-10-23 Michael Albinus * faq.texi (Bugs and problems): Replace diff --git a/man/calc.texi b/man/calc.texi index 6e397a0052c..df92a3f2e9b 100644 --- a/man/calc.texi +++ b/man/calc.texi @@ -28019,7 +28019,7 @@ the @kbd{u g} command gets the definition of one of these constants in its normal terms, and @kbd{u b} expresses the definition in base units. -Two units, @code{pi} and @code{fsc} (the fine structure constant, +Two units, @code{pi} and @code{alpha} (the fine structure constant, approximately @mathit{1/137}) are dimensionless. The units simplification commands simply treat these names as equivalent to their corresponding values. However you can, for example, use @kbd{u c} to convert a pure