True enough--and thank you and W7AY for pointing that out--but there is no justification I can see for "mhz", which breaks not only the standard you reference, but also the convention for capitalizing proper names, such as Hertz--and Ampere, Ohm, Tesla, Oersted, Siemens, Henry, Farad, etc.
There is plenty of trivia on this site, as on most, but for technical folks, units are hardly trivial. Garry, NI6T On 4/2/2010 2:49 PM, Randy Farmer wrote: > >> As an engineer, I tried to use what I was >> taught--lower-case multipliers are<1 and upper-case multipliers are>1. >> "K" and "k" appear to have gone the same route as "M" and "m". I don't >> know why or when these changed--probably when I was not looking. >> > Trivia time. Per the International System of Units (SI), the prefixes > for multiples of 10 (deca-), 100 (hecto-) and 1000 (kilo-) take lower > case. All others are upper case. See: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units > > 73... > Randy, W8FN > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
