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[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 27/01/2017 à 13:02, Jean-Noël AVILA a écrit :
> Le 27/01/2017 à 12:50, jp charras a écrit :
>> Le 27/01/2017 à 12:26, Chris Pavlina a écrit :
>>> I noticed the artifacts in the code too, but didn't see anything in the
>>> graphic.
>>>
>>> I would definitely take another update from anyone who wants to further
>>> edit this:
>>>
>>> - Remove any artifacts that may be present
>>> - Use lower-case "k"
>> Interesting topic:
>> In France, unit prefixes corresponding to a scaling factor > 1 are in upper case and < 1 in lower case.
> 
> I have no knowledge of such "rule". In France, we are mainly using ISO
> notation.
> 
>> This is the "legal" notation, and I am thinking this is an ISO normalization.
>> therefore M is mega and m is milli.
> 
> This rule may appear to be true for this case, but it is not a rule (see
> below).
> 
>>
>> Although K is kilo (the only one official notation) and k does not exist in "legal" notation,
> 
> False! kilo is always k : kg, km, k-ohms and so on.
> 
> See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
> 


Sorry, you are right, and i am stupid.
I was confusing by M (mega) and m (milli)

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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS