On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:50:27PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
> 
> >Well, I used to work as a watchmaker, and I can't think of any
> >context where "KB" stands together as written with "K" meaning
> >"karat".
> 
> That's not surprising--in SI, the prefix is the scale factor, and
> the remainder is the unit.  I don't think there are any unit symbols
> that have multiple uppercase letters.

Is Hz for Hertz not standard?

-- hendrik


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