On Saturday 15 March 2008 17:53, James Frysinger wrote: > Neither "centiamps" nor "milliamps" would be acceptable in an IEEE > standard. Unit names are to be spelled out completely or symbolized, as > in "milliamperes" or "mA". It would be acceptable, though not > preferable, to use "centiamperes" or "cA". Nor does IEEE accept "kilos", > "klicks", or the like. In my experience while working in each field, > yes, engineers are more casual (some might say "sloppy") in casual > speech when using these units names but I found that physicists are even > more so.
I had a physics teacher who called a milliliter a "crouton" ;) Pierre
