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From: Jonathan Amery <jdamery@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 17:17:14 +0000
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In article <3C2315D6.40105@purplet.demon.co.uk> you write:
>Engineers not (yet) being familiar with the relatively new SI (and IEEE)
>binary prefixes is just about acceptable. "Engineers" that misuse k/K
>and (worse!) m/M should be in a different field entirely. The SI system
>is generally taught as basic science to pre-teenagers. There is no
>excuse!
>
 How many of them learn it though?

 Jonathan (occasionally guilty of s/kB/KB/ himself).


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