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  • neumast@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlScary
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    1 year ago

    $ 50

    Do you call this fifty dollars, or dollar fifty?

    Lots of stuff is written differently, than it is spoken. In case of the date it is weird, not to go from biggest to smallest or vice versa. I guess you are used to it now, but for me it would be the same as putting seconds before minutes or inches before feet.









  • The actual unit is lower case, the multiplier is uppercase.

    Wouldn’t agree with that… There are many different units and multipliers. the letter being uppercase or lowercase has nothing to do with it.

    Examples:

    letters for prefixes/multipliers being uppercase and lowercase: P, T, G, M, k, h, da, d, c, m, u, n (trillion, billion, million, thousand, hundred, ten, one tenth, one hundredth, one thousandth, one millionth, one billionth)

    Letters for units being uppercase and lowercase: s, m, g, N, W, J, A, K, V, h, Hz (seconds, meter, gram, Newton, Watt, Joule, Ampere, Kelvin, Volt, hour, Hertz) (just recognised, that most units, which are named after scientists, are written with capital letters…)

    km = thousand meters/kilometer

    K = Kelvin (unit for temperature)

    M = Mega (prefix for one million)

    kJ = thousand joules

    s = second

    ms = millisecond (one thousandth)

    S = siemens (electrical conductivity)

    mS = milli siemens

    mm = millimeter (one thousandth of a meter)

    Mm = megameter (one million meters or thousand kilometers)