Roger, Most of this problem occurs from the Latin M= 1000 and the Greek K=1000 What came later just confused the issue- is this an example of a decision by committee(s) ?
Ralph Cameron ----- Original Message ----- From: <roger.vi...@wwgsolutions.com> To: <emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 5:38 AM Subject: RE: Y3K > > > Thanks to all who made their comments following my complaint about the misuse of > K for 1000. Maybe a final word about this problem! > > The IEC (even more pedantic!) are attempting to fix this by creating a new set > of units for binary multiples (Amendment 2 to IEC International Standard IEC > 60027-2: Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology - Part 2: > Telecommunications and electronics.): > > Ki (kibi) = 2E10 (1024) > > Mi (mebi)= 2E20 (1 048 576) > > Gi (gibi) = 2E30 (1 073 741 824) etc. > > For details (and to check this is not some early April 1 joke) see the SI prefix > description on the US National Institute of Standards and Technology website at: > http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html (confirms that x1000 is small > k!) and then the binary prefix description at: > > http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html > > > I don?t see the whole IT industry changing its usage to this new set of prefixes > ! > > > Roger > > > > > Gary McInturff <gmcintu...@telect.com> on 06/01/2000 22:49:38 > > Please respond to Gary McInturff <gmcintu...@telect.com> > > To: "'Egon H. Varju'" <e...@varju.bc.ca>, EMC-PSTC <emc-p...@ieee.org> > cc: (bcc: Roger Viles/PLY/Global) > > Subject: RE: Y3K > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > > Oh my last birthday my children wanted to know if I was really, really sad > when the Dinosaur's all died - heavy sigh! > Anyway - M is for Mega or 1,000,000 and K for Kilo or 1,000 > But I'm sorta betting you're getting tired of hearing that. > Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: Egon H. Varju [mailto:e...@varju.bc.ca] > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 9:17 AM > To: EMC-PSTC > Subject: Re: Y3K > > > > >Roger, way back in the days of the caveman, 1M ohms = 1000 > ohms. Guess > >going metric changed everything. > > Strange ... During my dinosaur hunting days, 1M ohm used to > be = 1 000 000 > ohms. Maybe we grew up in parallel universes ... > > Egon :-) > > __________________________________________ > > Egon H. Varju, PEng > E.H. Varju & Associates Ltd. > North Vancouver, Canada > > Tel: 1 604 985 5710 HAVE MODEM > Fax: 1 604 273 5815 WILL TRAVEL > > E-mail: e...@varju.bc.ca > eva...@compuserve.com > egon.va...@csa-international.org > __________________________________________ > > --------- > This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. > To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org > with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the > quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, > jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or > roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators). > > > --------- > This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. > To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org > with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the > quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, > jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or > roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators). > > > > > > > > > > --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators).
