Talk:Ancient Roman units of measurement/Hexadecimal metric system
Talk:Ancient Roman units of measurement/Hexadecimal metric system < Talk:Ancient Roman units of measurement The hexadecimal metric system (abbreviated SMH for: "système métrique hexadécimal ... more than 200 years – the decimal metric system is a kind of "state religion ... it." The official devise of the hexadecimal metric system: Two thumbs, eight other fingers. Twice ... In analogy to the well-known decimal prefixes, the binary ones pico-, micro-, mega- ...
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Talk:Binary prefix
... That is, by converting to precise binary prefixes from loose decimal approximations, they left no ... the HDD physicists by using the standard metric units to count bits. Memory controllers on ... audacious, I suggest a renaming from "Byte/Prefixes" to "Byte prefixes" ;-) -- Tarquin I find it a bit confusing ... table listing the deprecated usage of the prefixes. Maybe it's better to have ...
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Talk:Imperial unit/Archive I
... the government's efforts to implement the metric system were more extensive: pretty much any ... as fuel and meat) be priced in metric units, although there is leniency in regards ... kilograms. Land is surveyed and registered in metric units, but imperial units still dominate in ... required by law to do so) in metric; moreover, commercial contractors will generally handle their projects in metric because inspectors expect the documentation to ...
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Talk:Non-SI unit prefix
... unit prefix This article was originally named Obsolete SI prefixes. Name or scope of article is wrong ... badly named, and the merging here of Obsolete metric prefixes was wrong. Prefixes like myria, and ...
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SI prefix
... a decimal multiple or submultiple. Many SI prefixes predate the introduction of the SI in ... Overview SI defines a number of SI prefixes to be used with the units: these ... is one-thousandth of a litre. The prefixes are never combined; a millionth of a ... microkilogram'. The ability to apply the same prefixes to any SI unit is one of ... s learning and use. The following SI prefixes can be used to prefix any ...
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Talk:SI prefix
... that claim and removed it. AxelBoldt Binary prefixes The powers of two have a new ... moving most of the explanation of byte prefixes to Byte prefixes, and leaving just a short paragraph on ... UTC) I've renamed it to "Binary prefixes". It's used for anything based on ... started on whether Wikipedia should use these prefixes all the time, only in highly ...
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Non-SI unit prefix
... SI unit prefix There exist several unit prefixes used like the SI prefixes, but that are not part of the ... they represent are already taken by SI prefixes. One such prefix is bronto, used in ... 10 27 . SI has already produced standard prefixes for 10 15 (peta), 10 21 (zetta ... 24}. There are many other unofficial prefixes. Some of them appear to come ...
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Talk:Billion
... simply be avoided altogether in favor of metric prefixes and exponential notation). I've been tinkering ... the long scale usage as "archaic" or "obsolete" you can't just brush it away ... 2004 (UTC) Milliard The term Milliard is obsolete in modern British English. See for example ... UTC) An editor just removed the word "obsolete" basing this on its appearance in ...
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Talk:Ancient Roman units of measurement/Hexadecimal foot
... measures/Archive 2#Summary The new hexadecimal metric system PS. The decimal meter is, since ... Not any longer. Soon, the new hexadecimal metric system – I really have this conviction – will replace this "poor decimal metric system", which has not even conserved the ... than 200 years, the long-cherished "decimal metric system" is a kind of "state religion ... Vive la République!" The foot of hexadecimal metric system has two definitions. A scientific ...
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List of strange units of measurement
... joke is in having a rather large, obsolete unit (fortnight) combined with a fractional SI ... approximately 20 terabytes of uncompressed textual data. Metric There are also some obscure metric units: with arbitrary units and prefixes, you can express a common unit with ... 20th century used a variant of the metric system where the base unit of ...
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