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    5 months ago

    No, that absolutely does not resolve the confusion between meter (m) and milli (m)

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      5 months ago

      I feel like a dumbass

      I totally read your comment as “Megahertz or Millihertz”

      Now I realize it should just be Meters•Herts or m•Hz

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      5 months ago

      Standing alone ‘m’ is metre.

      With a decimal modifier ahead of it, ‘m’ is metre

      Immediately before a symbol it is milli (one thousandth)

      mm - the first m is before the metre symbol, it is the milli multiplier, the second m is after a multiplier, so it is the symbol for metre

      mHz - the m is before the symbol Hz (for Hertz) so it is the milli multiplier

      km - the m is after the K (kilo, thousand times) multiplier, so it is metre

      You probably spell metre ‘meter’, but a meter is a whole different word in English