>Of Bill Potts
>I hate to break this to you, but the letter m is both a unit and a prefix,
>so it's not as if there wouldn't be a precedent.

I had not noticed. Thanks for pointing it out.


>Also, if we were to replace da, h and k, with D, H and K (as has often
>been recommended), K would be both a unit and a prefix.

I tidy up of the SI system would perhaps include abandoning prefixes that
are not multiples of 1000. So we would no longer need the following
prefixes: 'h', 'da', 'd' or 'c'. Thus we would only need to deal with one
anomaly of lower case i.e. 'k'.

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