[USMA:36338] RE: Prefix choices

[Mike Millet]

Actually Australians still refer to their height in feet and inches :). A leftover from the non SI days I guess.

As far as screen sizes go for monitors I can vouch that I have never ever seen an SI unit measurement on a monitor screen. Even in commercials in the UK or Australia or France it's always been a 15 inch or 17 inch or whatever. They may put a cm measurement in parenthesis but I've never seen it advertised as a 30 cm screen. Partly that's due to the influence of US manufacturers who insist on using inches evene when the screen is manufactured in metric.

We do however measure brightness in candelas per square meter without any trouble, and all the other measurements I use for my electronics engineering stuff or network design are metric.

Mike
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