While that’s true, it’s an inconsistency. All other prefixes for factors greater than 1 are capitalized, while lowercase prefixes are for factors less than 1.
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cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Km
k is kilo, K is Kelvin.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
No, hecto and deca are also not capitalized. The rule should be, uppercase if more than 10^3. Or simply the change between upper and lowercase is between 10^3 and 10^6, not at 1.
It grinds my gears much more, that all the letters are latin, except μ.
marcos@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah, Latin prefixes should have Greek letters, and Greek prefixes should have Latin letters.
Or, maybe we change µ.
Personally, both are fine to me. But the first one would also solve the similarity between m and M, and also y and Y.
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Now hear me out: Kelvingrams. If you can have an absolute coldest, maybe an absolute heaviest!
I don’t think this is how physics works but it sounded fun…