09-13-2010, 04:14 PM
(09-13-2010, 03:38 PM)Gnollguy Wrote: ...context should make that obvious.
Yes, that's why I didn't think we are talking about taking in a tonne of tacrolimus every day
Regarding your 'megagram': this word seems only to exist in Polish and Dutch, and it's abbreviation is Mg, not MG.
(09-13-2010, 03:38 PM)Gnollguy Wrote: Gram is the base word, it should be the base unit.
If you say so.
Btw, as a point of interest:
Fahrenheit based his temperature scale on 3 reference points. The zero point was the stabilized temperature of a mixture of ice, water and ammonium chloride. He liked binary numbers (for the reason Pete pointed out earlier: to make dividing up his scale easier), so he gave the stabilized temperature of a regular water and ice mix (the freezing point of water) a value of 32. He then noted that 96 was the temperature of... his wife. So, since a scale of 96 is preferrable to a scale of 32 (smaller margin of error), Fahrenheit decided to define his scale using salt-water-ice mixture of unknown exact composition, and his wife's temperature.
Nowadays, Fahrenheit is only used in a few nations (Jamaica, Palau, Burma, Belize, Liberia and the US), and only in non-scientific applications.