Re: RADSAFE digest 1086

[Les Fraley <les@lamar.ColoState.EDU>]

I don't accept this explanation!  When I was in the (pre-nuclear) Navy, 
capacitors were rated, when appropriate, as uuF, not pF.  Why?  Just 
because people would accept double u as 10E-12, but weren't accustomed 
to the term pico; it was not that common then.
Les Fraley

 On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Mike 
Baker wrote:

> 
> While I was working in the naval nuclear program, the reason given that
> uuCi is used versus pCi was that uCi and pCi sound alike over a sound
> powered phone.  Therefore the use of micro-micro Ci would be clearer in
> communications.
> 
> Mike Baker ... baker@groves.neep.wisc.edu
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