It is a much worse sin to use kilo as in kilobytes, meaning 2^10 (1024)
instead of 1000, or mega for 2^20 instead of 10^6, or giga....etc.
One has to partially forgive our American friends for such offenses --
after a century, they still don't use the metric system, you cannot ask
them to respect the prefixes.
But Herr Pietschmann is right, you should not mix SI preffixes with
unstandard units, the resulting symbol can become ambiguous. For example,
what would mean "1 min" ? A minute or a thousandth of a inch -- a miliinch?
By the way, "point" is a terrible measurement unit, because in typography
there are three kinds of points:
- the Anglo-Saxon point = 1/12 pica = 0,013835 in = 0,3514 mm (no,
it's not exactly 1/72 in !!)
- the Didot point = 0,3759 mm
- the Fournier point = 0,3487 mm
Also, a point can be:
- one hundreth of a carat (weight)
- an angle equal to 1/32 of a circle (11� 15')
- a measure of paper thicknes, equal to... surprise: 1/1000 of an
inch !!!! (1 min = 1 pt ???)
Too crazy for me. I'd rather stick to the meter and its multiples.
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Marcelo Jaccoud Amaral
Petrobras - TI - Neg�cios Eletr�nicos
mailto:jaccoud [at] petrobras.com.br
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There are only 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary
and those who don't.
Bernd
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e> Assunto: Re: IPD
2003-09-04 13:43
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On Wednesday 03 September 2003 21:48, J.Pietschmann wrote:
> Should be "1/1000 pt", not millipoint, unless you want to attract
> the wrath of the ISO community for using ISO prefixes with non-ISO
> measurement units...
What's the problem? I doubt that ISO owns a patent on those prefixes :-)
Bye,
Bernd
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