Dear All, I have just been looking at the excellent page on prefixes at http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/si-prefixes.html when it occurred to me that I have never been clear in my mind as to who actually originated the idea of prefixes.
I know that the original prefixes had a pattern of being derived from Latin or from Greek and that the pattern has subsequently broken down, but this does not help with who it was who devised the prefix concept initially. Can anyone help me with this please? Cheers, Pat Naughtin PO Box 305 Belmont 3216 Geelong, Australia 61 3 5241 2008 Pat Naughtin is manager of http://www.metricationmatters.com an internet website that focuses on the many issues, methods and processes that individuals, groups, companies, and nations use when upgrading to the metric system. Contact Pat Naughtin at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
