on 31.12.2000 07.42, Bill Potts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greg Peterson wrote:
>
>> ... of about 1 Mpeople ...
>
> Yuk! "People" is not a unit of measure and certainly not a symbol. Let's
> preserve a little linguistic elegance here. <g>
>
> How about "of about a million people ..."?
>
> Bill Potts, CMS
> San Jose, CA
> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
Dear Bill, Greg and All,
Surely megapeople is OK - if inelegant - as long as it is spelled out.
Mpeople is a construction that includes a (correct) SI prefix symbol, but
combines it with the spelled out word 'people'; and to the best of my
knowledge, there is no internationally agreed, and supported, symbol for
people.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin CAMS
Geelong, Australia
