[Milsurplus] Night of Nights VI

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Two things:

(a) it's English (or if you insist, anglicized latin), not French.

(b) people with single digit and lower double-digit IQ's claim that the 
English system is ambiguous and hard to learn and subject to misinterpretation by 
other people with single-digit and lower double-digit IQ's.  The full terms in 
your examples are KC/s and cycles per second, and they were afraid that they 
would forget what the implied terms really meant, and embarrass themselves 
while in the company of normal humans.  So they dumbed it down to their level.

FWIW, my American Eskimo is equally at home with either system.  She grins at 
my happily as I hand her a treat, regardless of whether I say "Kilocycle 
treat" or Kilohertz treat" as I do so.  This is a scientifically repeatable 
experiment, proving that neither term has any inherent advantage.

In a message dated 4/6/2006 8:36:46 PM Central Daylight Time, 
smithab11 at comcast.net writes: 
> * kc. equals kilocycle,  1 kc.  equals 1000 cycles.  What was wrong with 
> kc. 
> and cycles anyway?
> 

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