Nothing, absolutely nothing! The periods are not full stops but multiplication dots. Another example:
1 W = 1 kg.m^2/s^3 Without the multiplication dots, it would look like this: KPaHz Even though kilopascal is kPa, KPa might be interpreted as kilopascal instead of kelvin pascal. From: Mark Henschel Sent: Tuesday, 2014-05-27 06:41 To: Harold_Potsdamer Subject: Re: [USMA:53849] Re: MG But no period unless the symbol is at the end of a sentence. What do you think KPH stands for? On May 22, 2014 8:04 PM, "Harold_Potsdamer" <[email protected]> wrote: Kelvin Pascal Hertz would be K.Pa.Hz From: Mark Henschel Sent: Thursday, 2014-05-22 00:12 To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:53849] Re: MG 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
