Robert and EMC-PSTC, According to some books of physics (e.g., Halliday and Resnick) and Web pages concerning measurements:
http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/general/si_en.html#prefixes The right usage of "kilohertz" is "kHz", and not "KHz". Best Regards Muriel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Macy" <m...@california.com> To: "Price, Ed" <ed.pr...@cubic.com>; <emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 3:17 PM Subject: Re: case of units > > Still use KHz > > For me it's a logical carrier over from > small letter = small value > capital letter = large value > > mOhm means milli Ohm NOT mega Ohm > mHz is milliHertz > KHz is kilo Hertz (note magnifier is larger than one) > MHz is megaHertz > and so on > > - Robert - > > Robert A. Macy, PE m...@california.com > 408 286 3985 fx 408 297 9121 > AJM International Electronics Consultants > 619 North First St, San Jose, CA 95112 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Price, Ed <ed.pr...@cubic.com> > To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org <emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org> > Date: Monday, June 24, 2002 8:24 AM > Subject: RE: case of units > > > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Brent DeWitt [mailto:bdew...@ix.netcom.com] > >>Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 7:04 PM > >>To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org > >>Subject: case of units > >> > >> > >> > >>I've always found it interesting that the small "k" is the > >>only lower case > >>letter used for multipliers greater than unity. I presume it > >>is because the > >>temperature folks got there first with Lord Kelvin's initial. Too bad > >>really since "kilo" has a linguistic meaning for numbers and > >>Kelvin is just > >>a name. Also rather interesting that we have no trouble using > >>"G" for both > >>Giga and Gauss. > >> > >>Just Sunday evening thoughts. > >> > >>Brent DeWitt > > > > > >Brent: > > > >For years, I had always written kiloHertz as KHz. Then, as a hirling, I > >bumped up against the Information Technology Group at General Dynamics > >Electronics Division. I noticed that all my text came back using "kHz." > >After a few cycles of this, I decided to follow up on the cause. I found > >that they worked to a bureaucratic "style manual", which dictated the style > >for abbreviations and technical terms. I had the temerity to ask who wrote > >the style manual, and why KHz was rendered as kHz. They finally produced a > >Mil-Std, which had a list of acronyms and special terms. And, there on the > >list, was "kHz"! No explanation, just "kHz". So I asked them if maybe the > >Mil-Std was just a typo error, and that shouldn't we allow logic to > prevail? > >No, because if they did that, someone might think the abbreviation actually > >meant "degrees Kelvin Hertz". They won. > > > >Lately, after many more years of continuing to personally use KHz (and > >having re-educated my MS Word about my preference), I find that I am > >wearying of the explanations, and have started to use kHz. 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