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Metric prefixes
- To: John Cowan <cowan@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Subject: Metric prefixes
- From: "61510::GILSON" <cbmvax!uunet!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!gilson!61510.decnet>
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 16:34:00 EST
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Colin Fine writes:
> I have never come across mF (millifarads), meV
>(milli-electron volts) Mg (megagrams) or exa-, femto- or atto- anything.
You ought to have come across megagrams, except that people insist on calling
them "tonnes." SI would insist on megagrams.
Nuclear physicists do use femtometers (formerly called fermis).