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

[Phil Hystad]

I think an easier way to remember is that starting from the very small of the prefixes up through kilo, they are all lower case.  Then, beginning with Mega and all those that are larger are upper case.  Thus, Mega begins the upper case range, everything else below is lower case.  But, I totally ignore these when it comes to kHz --- I like the look of KHz better then kHz so will will write KHz down whenever I am writing kilo-Hertz.

73,
phil, K7PEH



On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Randy Farmer wrote:

> 
>> 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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