Harold,

Try K*Pa*Hz for multiplication, not to be confused with K.Pa.Hz

Eugene Mechtly
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of 
Harold_Potsdamer [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 7:28 PM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:53888] Re: MG

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<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, 2014-05-27 06:41
To: Harold_Potsdamer<mailto:[email protected]>
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]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Kelvin Pascal Hertz would be K.Pa.Hz



From: Mark Henschel<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, 2014-05-22 00:12
To: U.S. Metric Association<mailto:[email protected]>
Cc: U.S. Metric Association<mailto:[email protected]>
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]<mailto:[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 
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    Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 12:40:56 +0100
    From: Martin Vlietstra 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Reply-To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:53820] Re: MG
      To: "U.S. Metric Association" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[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]> 
[mailto:[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]<mailto:[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



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