🚀 go-pugleaf

(This message is a contribution of the Diatribe-of-the-Month Club,
and should not be held against my employer!)

I note that the members of this Group are no better than
others at getting the abbreviations of units of measure and their
multipliers right. Nevertheless, doing it right isn't really hard.

The general rule is that the unit is not capitalized; the abbreviation
of the unit is capitalized only if it is named after a person.
Multipliers are not capitalized; abbreviations for multipliers greater
than one thousand ARE capitalized.

Correct    Unit         Incorrect    What "incorrect" "says"
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   Hz     hertz            hz        "hz"
  kHz     kilohertz        KHz       kelvin-hertz
			   khz       kilo"hz"
			   Khz       kelvin"hz"
  MHz     megahertz        mHz       millihertz (Hz/1000)
			   mhz       milli"hz"
  GHz     gigahertz

   s      second(s)        S         siemens    (1/ohms)
			   sec       "dry" in French
  ms      milliseconds     Ms        megaseconds
  us (mu) microseconds     ms        milliseconds
  ns      nanoseconds      Ns        newton-seconds
			   NS        newton-siemens
			   nS        nanosiemens

See the following for more information:
	ANSI/IEEE Std 945
	ASTM publication E 380
	National Bureau of Standards Special Publication 330
also: "Changing to the Metric System", Ministry of Technology,
National Physical Laboratory, HMSO London, 1965.
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I don't think the following are yet "official".
	   b      bit(s)
	  Bd      baud (from Baudot)
	  by      byte
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I have to go back into my cage now, the keeper has come.

Bob Carpenter   <rc@icst-cmr.arpa>