27 Jul
2012
27 Jul
'12
2:46 p.m.
On 27 Jul 2012 at 20:33, Tony Duell wrote:
'Deci' and 'Deka' are not
commonly-used prefixes in England. One time
I do come across them is that tightneing torques are now often givein
in dekanewton.metres.
I've seen it here in the medical trade in terms of concentrations of
various substances in the blood, e.g. mg./dL or ?g/dL. I don't know
why.
Does the use of a scale factor (milli- mega-, etc.) carry an implied
precision in common European usage? In other words, does 500 metres
impy a greater precision than 0.5 km.?
--Chuck