Boolean

[Ted Borck <tborck@domain.elided>]

> From: Doug Rasmussen <DougRasmussen@domain.elided>
> To: "INTERNET:ihc@domain.elided" <ihc@domain.elided>, John H
> <hofs@domain.elided>
> Subject: Re: Boolean, or boolean
> Date: Mon, Jan 25, 1999, 4:50 PM
> 
> 
> John,
> 
>   Unfortunately for John Boole's heirs copyright/trademark laws didn't
> exist in his days as they do today.  So the term "Boolean" has come
> into general usage as "boolean".  You are certainly correct that out
> of respect for Mr. Boole, it should be capitalized.
> 
>   Incidently, when I worked in numerical analysis at Boeing this topic
> came up and we decided for consistency everyone would use the lower
> case "b".
> 
>   Just my bit of trivia on this Monday morning.

Doug,

So is it Avogadro's number (Amedeo Aavogadro 1776 - 1856) or avogadro's
number?

Bernoulli's principle (Daniel Bernoulli 1700 - 1782) or bernoulli's
principle?

Then again - a newton is lower case.

<g>

Ted Borck	tborck@domain.elided