On Sat, 16 Feb 2019, 14:06 Erik Christiansen, <[email protected]> wrote:
> But we freely use ohm, kilohm, and megohm to avoid superfluous > zeroes. Similarly, 1 hPa is immediately recognisable as 1 millibar, > given that a bar is 1e5 Pa. None of hPa, kPa, MPa, bar do anything other > than move the decimal point, providing notational shorthand. I will > admit that Aussies are slow to adopt the cm, using only mm and meter, so > a door is 2040 mm, not just 204 cm. Give it another generation, perhaps. > The hecto, centi, deci, deka are deprecated in SI, so cm should not be used. I am a bit annoyed that the base mass unit is the kg, ie that it has an embedded prefix. That is one unit that could very usefully be named after a dead scientist. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
