Re: Birthday Wish

["J. Douglas Patterson" <dpatter@DV037S33.LAWRENCE.KS.US>]

On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, brian whatcott wrote:

> I know a person who claims to have an engineering degree who refers
> to a term like "33MHz" as thirty three millihertz.

Becareful, oftentimes in engineering, M is used instead of m or mu for
milli- or micro-.  I'm not sure why this is, but I do know that it is
done.  Many capacitors are labelled 'MF' for microfarads.

        J. Douglas Patterson
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