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From: dmitry6243@my-deja.com
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Subject: Re: Wrong SI unit specification
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:54:25 GMT
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In article <mailman.980946140.11902.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>,
  comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:
> dmitry6243@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> > I believe, Millisiemens is also wrong. Correct would be
> > millisiemens.
>
> No, only the abbreviated form is specified.

http://www.bipm.fr/enus/3_SI/si-derived.html gives both the full
(siemens) and the abbreviated (S) forms.

> > And ft is not foot, but femtoton (:-))

Again no, since ton (1 ton = 1Mg) is no official SI unit, so it can't
get a prefix. :-b

Yes, with or without a prefix it is not a SI unit. However metric ton
is often used with a SI prefix (kiloton, megaton). A nasty consequence
is that ft = 10e-12 kg = ng (:-))

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Dmitry Kazakov


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