>>>>> "Anto'nio" == Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JimC> I'm sure things like m€, k€, M€ and even G€ will come into use, JimC> though I expect more will use them in front of the digits. Anto'nio> Perhaps, but that would be incorrect, methinks: Using SI Anto'nio> preffixes implies that one is adopting the said unit (the Anto'nio> euro, in this case) as if it were a SI unit itself -- and Anto'nio> thus all other formal rules of the SI would apply. This Anto'nio> includes the rule about (number)+(nbsp)+(unit symbol). They aren’t really SI preficies in this context. Milli, centi, kilo, mega and giga (at least) have part of the global lexicon; terra is not far behind (especially if disk sizes continue to grow). They are being used more as metric prefices than as SI prefices. -JimC
