--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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. >
Ich bin mit Ihnen gar nicht einverstanden! The prefixes milli, centi, kilo, etc. predate ISO by several centuries at least. Those are Latin words--millipoint is fine, just like millennium, century, or centipede for that matter. > 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? > Yeah, I can't tell you the number of times I got a note from someone saying he/she'd be back in "30 min.", only to find out he/she meant 30 milli-inches! ;) Glen __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
