milli & micro etc

[Andrew McEwan <Andrew@nrl.moh.govt.nz>]

Bj÷rn Cedervall wrote

"For microsievert etc, the Greek letter mu should not be used
at all in electronic communication - it is safer to spell it
out. The reason is that the Greek "micro" sometimes is lost
in the transfer from one electronic document to the next."

I recall one occasion receiving a document in which the Greek micro had been 
converted to a capital T, ie tera.  A change of merely 18 orders of 
magnitude.

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National Radiation Laboratory
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