[SI-LIST] Re: Language conventions

  • From: Ivor Bowden <ivor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 15:07:23 -0800

before pico-farads we called them micro-micro farads, or "micky-mikes" 
for short..
Ivor

Abhijit Mahajan wrote:
> I like Hertz much better than cps.  But I think "Mho" is pretty wacky. 
> :-) So... would millimho be mm and so would millimeter?
> 
> Pardon me for nonsense...
> 
> Abhijit.
> 
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> Ingraham, Andrew wrote:
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>>>Where I went to school, we were taught inverse of Ohm is Mho.
>>>(Seriously).
>>>
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>>It was!
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>>And the unit for frequency was cps or cycles-per-second.
>>
>>Times change.
>>
>>:-)
>>Andy
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