Jinx wrote:

> (what comes after Tera?)
> 
> http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Administrivia/notation.html
> 
> Bottom of page

This table shows what comes after tera, but WRT the one-letter symbol it's
a bit odd: suggesting 'm' for both milli and micro doesn't work well. It's
also not the standard, even though it's a university site. Even the
non-technical and non-scientific Wikipedia is smarter here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro

And whoever thinks that in the 50ies or 60ies the use of 'm' for 'micro'
was understandable because 'milli' was not yet around should look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli -- they claim that 'milli' was adopted
in 1795 :)  Not sure this really holds true, but it definitely is older
that most of us here.

Gerhard

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