Re: Abbreviation of measures

Subject: Re: Abbreviation of measures
From: Jeanette Feldhousen <jeanette_feldhousen -at- MENTORG -dot- COM>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 09:25:14 -0700

On Jun 6, 8:45am, Mitman, Rikki wrote:
> Subject: Abbreviation of measures
> I'm looking for consensus on the abbreviation of things like megabyte
> and gigabyte, which are typically represented as mb and gb (or, to my
> dismay, MB, Mb GB, and Gb). To me, these are abbreviations, *not*
> acronyms, and should not be capped.

In scientific circles, "M" means mega, while "m" means milli, so the capital
M is correct. Unfortunately I don't have the reference here, so I can't
give you an answer on giga.

--Jeanette

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