[ARC5] The International System of Units (SI)

[Bill Cromwell]

My dear fellow,

It is true that context 'can' be our friend and that widens the circle 
of people who might be able to decode our gibberish. If we expect to 
communicate amongst the widest circle of people we have to make a 
greater effort to "get it right". Wars have killed millions of people 
over the misunderstanding of single words. Among radio amateurs, we 
merely fail to duplicate experimental results and at worst let the smoke 
out of a few parts.

73,

Bill  KU8H



On 02/14/2016 09:54 AM, J Mcvey via ARC5 wrote:
> That's all well and good, but who has a greek character font that they 
> can readily inject into their text? Thus the convention of using "u" 
> for mu?
> I never had a problem understanding the usage in that context. It's 
> better and less confusing than m which is more universally used to 
> denote milli.
> Since that was the case, why did they ever use mfd for microfarads 
> when ufd kind of looks like mu and is now universally understood as such?
> Where you can get tripped up with mHz (milli hertz) vs MHz (megahertz) 
> , but that too can usually be figured out in the context.
>
> There are lots of backwards conventions, like current flow 
> diagrams,etc, but at the end of the day, it does the same thing so it 
> doesn't matter.
>
> New or old way.I can get through it OK.
>
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