Howard Winter wrote:

>On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:05:44 +0200, Stef Mientki wrote:
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>>I've to admit that here in the Netherlands we also still use "pond" = 
>>500 grams,
>>and even "ons"=100 grams,
>>not to speak of physicians  who still use  mmHg, 
>>while there isn't any Mercury  in the hospital ;-)
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>I believe US aircraft still set their altimeters in inches of Mercury - even though carrying mercury in 
>commercial aircraft is illegal! :-)  We use millibars, although the standard is now to call them hectopascals 
>(same unit, different name, like cycles/s and Hz).  What was the abbreviation for cycles per second, 
>incidentally?
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simply c perhaps ????
While MHz = Mc ==>  .... ;-)
Stef

>Cheers,
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>Howard Winter
>St.Albans, England
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