In my notes from university (when cps was prevalent) I see that originally
kcps was written and even mcps (handwriting was terrible hard to tell
whether the m was capital or not, the m for millivolts was always written
mV), then when the change to Hertz came about (that probably should be
hertz) all of a sudden the k became a capital K, as in:
KHz KOhm & KVolts, MHz & MOhm, GHz & GOhm all meaning LARGE
mHz, mOhm, mV & mA, uV uF uT & uA, nV nF nT & nA, pV pF pT & pA, fV fF fT &
fA all meaning SMALL
So it appeared the common sense approach started to reign with the
descriptor as capital for large values and small letter for small values
with the denominations capital to show you've come to the end of the
descriptor and are now reading the denomination, else Farad would be
misinterpreted as femto.
Since this "adopted" protocol is so readable, you'd be hard pressed to get
me to change now.
- Robert -
-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Cameron <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>;
[email protected] <[email protected]>
List-Post: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: Y3K
>
>Roger,
>
>Most of this problem occurs from the Latin M= 1000
>and the Greek K=1000 What came later just confused the issue- is this an
>example of a decision
>by committee(s) ?
>
>Ralph Cameron
>
>
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