Re: Units of measure

Posted in 1998

Neil Truby — Fri, 13 Nov 1998 20:59:03 +0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Thomas J. Girsch wrote: > > Oddly enough, though, I thought that even K should be capitalized. The SI convention that originally established standard units of measure and magnitude agreed that all magnitude symbols should be capitalised EXECEPT for k. I can't remember the reason, but I think it may be that at the time (early 1900s) kg was already a universally-used symbol for kilogram. Neil