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

[Garry Shapiro]

True enough--and thank you and W7AY for pointing that out--but there is 
no justification I can see for "mhz", which breaks not only the standard 
you reference, but also the convention for capitalizing proper names, 
such as Hertz--and Ampere, Ohm, Tesla, Oersted, Siemens, Henry, Farad, etc.

There is plenty of trivia on this site, as on most, but for technical 
folks, units are hardly trivial.

Garry, NI6T

On 4/2/2010 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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