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Christian Corti <use@reply.to> wrote
> Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> wrote

>> Likewise, you often see "ug" or "um" because some apparently find it too
>> difficult to write "µg" or "µm".  The medical field uses "mcg", which is

> That's a (US-)americanism.

No, just a simplification.

> Nobody write "ug" or "um" in papers

Not clear what papers you are talking about.

> or other documents.

Not clear what documents you are talking about.

<makes an obscene gesture in Banks' general direction>

> And apparently many (US-)americans don't know what a picofarad
> (pF) is, they say (or write) micro-microfarad instead (µµF).

Can't recall anyone actually doing that.

> Now that's sick!

>> Yep; the SI unit of volume is cubic meters, but in most cases
>> that doesn't result in convenient sizes, so we use liters instead;
>> 1L = 1dm^3.  Also very useful is 1mL = 1cm^3 (aka 1cc).

> It's "ccm", not "cc".

Wrong.

> And liters are usually only used for liquids.

Wrong.

> And to be mathematically correct, it should be (dm)³ or (cm)³ or c³m³ ;-)

>> or Mg, which could easily be confused with the (fairly common) mg.  And
>> nobody seems to use Mm, Gm, etc.; they just use large numbers of km.

> No, we use tons, kilotons, megatons etc.