OK, I'll bite.
If KHz means kilohertz, what does kHz mean?
Don Borowski, PE
Schweitzer Enginering Labs
Pullman, WA
"Robert Macy" <[email protected]> on 06/24/2002 11:17:18 AM
Please respond to "Robert Macy" <[email protected]>
To: "Price, Ed" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
cc: (bcc: Don Borowski/SEL)
Subject: Re: case of units
Still use KHz
For me it's a logical carrier over from
small letter = small value
capital letter = large value
mOhm means milli Ohm NOT mega Ohm
mHz is milliHertz
KHz is kilo Hertz (note magnifier is larger than one)
MHz is megaHertz
and so on
- Robert -
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-----Original Message-----
From: Price, Ed <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
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Date: Monday, June 24, 2002 8:24 AM
Subject: RE: case of units
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Brent DeWitt [mailto:[email protected]]
>>Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 7:04 PM
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: case of units
>>
>>
>>
>>I've always found it interesting that the small "k" is the
>>only lower case
>>letter used for multipliers greater than unity. I presume it
>>is because the
>>temperature folks got there first with Lord Kelvin's initial. Too bad
>>really since "kilo" has a linguistic meaning for numbers and
>>Kelvin is just
>>a name. Also rather interesting that we have no trouble using
>>"G" for both
>>Giga and Gauss.
>>
>>Just Sunday evening thoughts.
>>
>>Brent DeWitt
>
>
>Brent:
>
>For years, I had always written kiloHertz as KHz. Then, as a hirling, I
>bumped up against the Information Technology Group at General Dynamics
>Electronics Division. I noticed that all my text came back using "kHz."
>After a few cycles of this, I decided to follow up on the cause. I found
>that they worked to a bureaucratic "style manual", which dictated the style
>for abbreviations and technical terms. I had the temerity to ask who wrote
>the style manual, and why KHz was rendered as kHz. They finally produced a
>Mil-Std, which had a list of acronyms and special terms. And, there on the
>list, was "kHz"! No explanation, just "kHz". So I asked them if maybe the
>Mil-Std was just a typo error, and that shouldn't we allow logic to
prevail?
>No, because if they did that, someone might think the abbreviation actually
>meant "degrees Kelvin Hertz". They won.
>
>Lately, after many more years of continuing to personally use KHz (and
>having re-educated my MS Word about my preference), I find that I am
>wearying of the explanations, and have started to use kHz. Yup, they won.
>
>Ed
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