[Elecraft] K3 dumb Q about PPM, less dumb one about NB

Randy Farmer w8fn at tx.rr.com
Fri Apr 2 17:49:56 EDT 2010


>As an engineer, I tried to use what I was
>taught--lower-case multipliers are <1 and upper-case multipliers are >1.
>"K" and "k" appear to have gone the same route as "M" and "m". I don't
>know why or when these changed--probably when I was not looking.

Trivia time. Per the International System of Units (SI), the prefixes 
for multiples of 10 (deca-), 100 (hecto-) and 1000 (kilo-) take lower 
case. All others are upper case. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units

73...
Randy, W8FN
    



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