09-13-2010, 06:40 PM
(09-13-2010, 04:24 PM)Gnollguy Wrote: Thus accidentally proving my point.
Are you sure?
Apparantly, there is something like a megagram, and it's even an official SI unit. I didn't know that. Noone uses it, though (and that includes Polish scientists).
I never had much medicines, so I might have missed Pete's original intent by using uppercase 'MG'. After looking at some pharmacy labels, I realize that most of the texts upon them are nearly completely uppercase, propably to facilitate easier reading by elderly or otherwise impaired patients. Someone with a grievance towards the metric system might indead read 'megagram' where it says 'MG', instead of milligram. But as remarked before, it's all in the context.