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 -----Original Message----- From: owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org [mailto:owner-emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org]On Behalf Of bogdan matoga Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 6:55 PM To: Robert Wilson Cc: TM66; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: Re: SI Unit for volume Bob: When you go for SI then please stay with the convention, i.e. kilowatt is abbreviated as kW and not KW. We are hopefully beyond the time when MAmp was supposed to mean milliampere. Regards, Bogdan. Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list" ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
