Greetings: I grew up and studied on the metric side of the pond. However, when I came to these here shores, "mhos" threw me for a loop. Successful New Millenium, whether metric or binary! Bogdan.
Ralph Cameron wrote: > Roger, way back in the days of the caveman, 1M ohms = 1000 ohms. Guess > going metric changed everything. > > Ralph Cameron > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: "Jon Griver" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 12:09 PM > Subject: RE: Y3K > > > > > > > > > Personally I'm still waiting for another 48 years until the Y2K bug bites! > > > > Aside from its real meaning as degrees Kelvin, capital K was first used by > the > > computer guys as a de-facto agreed unit for binary thousand (1024) as in > Kbytes. > > Sloppiness by the financial community led to its use there for thousands > of > > dollars, etc. and ignorance by the media has resulted in its general use. > > Together with the shorthand loved by Americans this has led to Y2K! > > > > However of course the official unit for 1000 has always been lower case k, > as in > > km, kHz, etc. > > > > Happy Y2k ! (I won't see Y2K!) > > > > Roger > > > > > > > > --------- > > This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. > > To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] > > with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the > > quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], > > [email protected], [email protected], or > > [email protected] (the list administrators). > > > > > > > > --------- > This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. > To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] > with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the > quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], or > [email protected] (the list administrators). --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
