I think if we want to be correct we would have to accept MG would really mean MegaGiga, which makes no sense. Like cc (centi-centi) or KPH (Kelvin Pascal Hertz) or kph ( kilo pico hour) Mark
Oh, and a 5K race would be a 5 Kelvin race. On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:46 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> ----- > > David Pearl www.MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917 >
