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THIS book contains a series of miscellaneous papers dealing with the application of mnemonic notation to various branches of pure and applied science, and especially to structural engineering. The formulæ of science should not be expressed in misleading symbols which are not suggestive of the quantities concerned, but in a notation which is the “embodiment of organised common sense.” The key to the notation adopted is to be found in the abbreviation of the significant words in any term until only the initial letter remains. In a few instances the second, or even the final, letter may be retained to form a subscript to the initial letter. “The greater letters are used to indicate greaterness of quantity or greaterness of complexity.”
Mnemonic Notation for Engineering Formulae. Report of the Science Committee of the Concrete Institute.
With explanatory notes by E. F. Etchells. Pp. 116. (London: E. and F. N. Spon, Ltd., 1918.) Price 6s. net.
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Mnemonic Notation for Engineering Formulae Report of the Science Committee of the Concrete Institute . Nature 103, 2 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103002b0
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