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Re: SI units

At 16:12 2/28/98 -0500, Rick Stine wrote:
should be Mg


Rick,
I have to guess that the above is your riposte to my note
quoted below. It would be better if you could copy a line
or two of the text to which you are responding.
As it turns out, a suitable rendering of 1 Mg in scientific
notation would be 1E3 kg or 10^3 kg



At 11:40 2/27/98 -0500, JoWatson wrote:

What's the abreviation for gram?
g?
math seems to push g for gm. They also weigh in grams.


I have this:
"It should be noted that masses are still expressed as multiples of the
gram, although the base unit is the kilogram. Thus 10^-6 kg should be
written as 1 mg"

Whatcott