Friday, March 9, 2012

Why are the prefixes tera,giga,mega start with a capital letter as an a symbol?

Tera is T because t usually refers to time. such as in formulas like d=vit+1/2at^2



Giga is G because g is usually acceleration due to gravity.



Mega is M because m is for milli as in ms for milliseconds as opposed to Ms for megasecondsWhy are the prefixes tera,giga,mega start with a capital letter as an a symbol?
They are conversion factors and therefore treated as units of measurement such as Meter or Miles.



HySt2812Why are the prefixes tera,giga,mega start with a capital letter as an a symbol?
Because the lower case letters were taken (M is mega and m is milli)

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