[Elecraft] Fwd: Re: KX3 Display LEDs

[Milt -- N5IA]

Good morning Igor,

You are correct, to a point.

When you have a thousand units of weight, in Spanish, you do NOT say you 
have "Kilo Kilos of X".  You say you have "mil kilos of X".

Likewise, when you travel a thousand units of distance, in Spanish, you do 
NOT say "Kilo Kilometros",  You say "mil Kilometros".

Milli is used as a prefix for terms to indicate 10 to the minus 3rd, but mil 
is used as a separate word to indicate 10 to the 3rd.

We humans have sure messed up the pure Adamic language, in multiple 
variations.

Happy New Year to all, de Milt, N5IA


-----Original Message----- 
From: Igor Sokolov
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 12:52 AM
To: Milt -- N5IA ; Bud Morin ; Elecraft Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Fwd: Re: KX3 Display LEDs

Kilo  is 10^3 or 1000   while milli  is 10^ -3 or 0.001 That is the
difference


73, Igor UA9CDC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Milt -- N5IA" <n5ia at zia-connection.com>
To: "Bud Morin" <dcmorin at wisc.edu>; "Elecraft Discussion Group"
<elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Fwd: Re: KX3 Display LEDs


> And it probably has its origin in Latin.  I do know that "one thousand" in
> the Spanish language is "un mil" when speaking of quantities.  However, it
> is "Kilo" when speaking of weights and measures.  Strange.
>
> de Milt, N5IA
>
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Bud Morin
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:50 PM
> To: Elecraft Discussion Group
> Subject: [Elecraft] Fwd: Re: KX3 Display LEDs
>
>
> 1 mm = 1 millimeter = 1000th of a meter
> 1 mA = 1 milliampere = 1000th of an Ampere
> 1 mW = 1 milliwatt = 1000th of a Watt
> 1 mT = 1 millitesla = 1000th of a Tesla
> 1 mil (shorthand) = 1 milli-inch = 1000th of an inch
>
> This "mil" has nothing to do with "million"
>
> 73,
> Bud Morin, K9ZT
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KX3 Display LEDs
> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:20:09 -0500
> From: Don Wilhelm <w3fpr at embarqmail.com>
> Reply-To: don at w3fpr.com
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, one has to be cautious of common "technical slang" in an
> international community.  Yes, common in US machinist's talk is for a
> 'mil' to equal 0.001 inch.  I am not certain of the origin and even
> though I looked it up at Wikipedia, I still don't have any answer to why
> 'thou' is equal to 'mil' (even though I use and understand that unit
> myself).
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 1/3/2012 12:05 AM, Matt Maguire wrote:
>>  Here a "mil" is ovbiously not referring to a millimetre, otherwise the
>> LEDs are sticking up 5cm! So, I did a google search, and discovered that
>> in the Imperial measurement system, it can also refer to one thousandth 
>> of
>> an inch (0.0254mm).
>>
>>  That means 50 mils = 1.27mm, which makes much more sense. You learn
>> something every day :-)
>>
>>
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