I suspect that people reading the message that I had sent out would
reasonably conclude that in such a context, clearly the intent is to
indicate milligrams. It has absolutely nothing to do with any non-SI units.
Can anyone offer an answer to my original question?
----- Message from Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]> ---------
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 12:40:56 +0100
From: Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: [USMA:53820] Re: MG
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
The gauss is a cgs unit, not an SI unit. As Pierre rightly point out, 1
MG =
1hT or, as per the Wikipedia table at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system , 1 G = 10^-4 T.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf
Of Pierre Abbat
Sent: 15 May 2014 10:43
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:53819] Re: MG
On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 16:36:34 [email protected] wrote:
Dr Patricia Weeks here at the Salem Clinic printed out a perscription
for my wife today for 150 MG of a particular medication. Astonished, I
pointed out to Dr Weeks that when the M is capitalized, it means mega,
which in this case, would means 150 megagrams, or 150 metric tons of
medication.
MG is not megagram. It is megagauss (1 MG=1 hT).
Pierre
--ve ka'a ro klaji la .romas. se jmaji
----- End message from Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]> -----
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