Originally Posted by
sarge4318
Technically speaking, seeing as we are being pedantic, it is ft.lb (sometimes ft.lbs or ft.lbf), not ft/lbs or ft-lbs (or even ft/lbf or ft-lbf) and never in this context lbf.ft
Depends on which schools you went to. and I believe both are correct. The . and the - are interchangeable in this context and sometimes the - is preferable as in Newton-metre or kilowatt-hour. I think we are agreed that ft/lb is always wrong.
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