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Re: MHO to Siemens





On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Donald E. Simanek wrote:

The unit fermi seems an oddball one. Some authorities recommend that its
NAME be just f. As to capitalization, one must ask, are you calling it a
'fermi' derived from Fermi's proper name? If so, you'd abbreviate it 'F'.
But this seems never to be done! If you are calling 10^-15 m a
'femtometer', then of course you abbreviate it 'f',

Well, of course, it's obvious you don't!. The femotmeter is abbreviated
'fm'. I did say that this amgiguity surrounding the unit femtometer
(Fermi?) is confusing.

-- Donald