starting to get away from the term "condensers") were specified
in mmf (milli micro farads) instead of pico farads as done
today.
Phil:
You sure it wasn't "micro-micro-Farad," denoted as either mmf or uuF?
Paul, W9AC
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On 12/8/2008 10:50 AM, Bill W5WVO wrote:
Why is "micro" (10^-6) abbreviated by the Greek letter mu ?
Obviously "m" was taken already by milli, so mu, the Greek
equivalent letter of the Roman "m", was chosen. :-)
But, but, but. back when I became a ham (1952) in high
school and went on
, the Greek
equivalent letter of the Roman "m", was chosen. :-)
(You can find out all kinds of useful and interesting things in a
common English dictionary!)
Bill W5WVO
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Dave Yarnes wrote:
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> But I still have no idea how they ever got
> started using "M" that way. It sure didn't make any sense to me.
>
M = 1000 in Roman numerals. Perhaps that's it?
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