On 14-Nov-21 10:36 am, Clive Arthur wrote:> On 12/11/2021 15:59, John Robertson wrote: > > <snip> >> >> How about just build a short BNC plug and receptacle extension, with a >> short length of cable between them? As you say it is only 20mHz... >> >> John :-#)# > > No, 20 MHz. FFS. >What does that mean? Sylvia.
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On 2021/11/13 3:37 p.m., Sylvia Else wrote:> On 14-Nov-21 10:36 am, Clive Arthur wrote: >> On 12/11/2021 15:59, John Robertson wrote: >> >> <snip> >>> >>> How about just build a short BNC plug and receptacle extension, with >>> a short length of cable between them? As you say it is only 20mHz... >>> >>> John :-#)# >> >> No, 20 MHz. FFS. >> > > What does that mean? > > Sylvia.I had the capitals incorrect - I put mHz, he corrected to MHz, MHZ is also correct. mHz is just wrong... https://www.abbreviations.com/abbreviation/MegaHertz FFF is For F...(s) Sake. John ;-#)#
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On 14-Nov-21 10:47 am, John Robertson wrote:> > On 2021/11/13 3:37 p.m., Sylvia Else wrote: >> On 14-Nov-21 10:36 am, Clive Arthur wrote: >>> On 12/11/2021 15:59, John Robertson wrote: >>> >>> <snip> >>>> >>>> How about just build a short BNC plug and receptacle extension, with >>>> a short length of cable between them? As you say it is only 20mHz... >>>> >>>> John :-#)# >>> >>> No, 20 MHz. FFS. >>> >> >> What does that mean? >> >> Sylvia. > > I had the capitals incorrect - I put mHz, he corrected to MHz, MHZ is > also correct. mHz is just wrong... > > https://www.abbreviations.com/abbreviation/MegaHertz > > FFF is For F...(s) Sake. > > John ;-#)#Oh, yes. Thanks. Sylvia.
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Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote in news:ivbduhFqd0eU1@mid.individual.net:> On 14-Nov-21 10:47 am, John Robertson wrote: >> >> On 2021/11/13 3:37 p.m., Sylvia Else wrote: >>> On 14-Nov-21 10:36 am, Clive Arthur wrote: >>>> On 12/11/2021 15:59, John Robertson wrote: >>>> >>>> <snip> >>>>> >>>>> How about just build a short BNC plug and receptacle >>>>> extension, with a short length of cable between them? As you >>>>> say it is only 20mHz... >>>>> >>>>> John :-#)# >>>> >>>> No, 20 MHz. FFS. >>>> >>> >>> What does that mean? >>> >>> Sylvia. >> >> I had the capitals incorrect - I put mHz, he corrected to MHz, >> MHZ is also correct. mHz is just wrong... >> >> https://www.abbreviations.com/abbreviation/MegaHertz >> >> FFF is For F...(s) Sake. >> >> John ;-#)# > > Oh, yes. Thanks. > > Sylvia. >Well it ain't Fast Fourier FuckForm. :-)
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On 13/11/2021 23:47, John Robertson wrote: <snip>> I had the capitals incorrect - I put mHz, he corrected to MHz, MHZ is > also correct. mHz is just wrong... > > https://www.abbreviations.com/abbreviation/MegaHertz > > FFF is For F...(s) Sake. > > John ;-#)#MHZ is certainly not correct! mHz (millihertz) is commonly used in seismometry for example. Basic stuff like this matters. -- Cheers Clive
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On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 6:33:07 AM UTC-4, Clive Arthur wrote:> On 13/11/2021 23:47, John Robertson wrote: > > <snip> > > I had the capitals incorrect - I put mHz, he corrected to MHz, MHZ is > > also correct. mHz is just wrong... > > > > https://www.abbreviations.com/abbreviation/MegaHertz > > > > FFF is For F...(s) Sake. > > > > John ;-#)# > MHZ is certainly not correct! > > mHz (millihertz) is commonly used in seismometry for example. > > Basic stuff like this matters.It varies a lot between disciplines. I was reading a finanical article which used "m" for millions, then later in the same piece used "mm" for million as in "thousand - thousand". I expect each usage was from a source and the author never bothered to care that they were using different symbols. Reminds me of a Reader's Digest joke about an American visiting Scotland I think and was telling a story in a bar (excuse me, pub). There were three different mistranslations that resulted in his story becoming a "tall tale". The last was so egregious the patrons congratulated him on being the biggest liar ever in the bar. I believe it had to do with the different definition of "billion" being a thousand million in the US and a million million in the UK (at least at that time). Looks like we are heading for simple news reporting becoming the bigger liar with the confused abbreviations for million. Not sure the Brits would ever notice. They did manage the transition from the old p to the new p and such. Does "Bob" still have any monetary meaning? I did find Andy Capp to be rather humorous asking for "a bob" and all. It was much more recently I figured out why he called everyone Gov'. -- Rick C. - Get 1,000 miles of free Supercharging - Tesla referral code - https://ts.la/richard11209
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On 14/11/2021 18:13, Rick C wrote: <snipped>> It varies a lot between disciplines. I was reading a finanical article which used "m" for millions, then later in the same piece used "mm" for million as in "thousand - thousand". I expect each usage was from a source and the author never bothered to care that they were using different symbols.I think MMBOPD is still used to mean 'million barrels of oil per day'.> Not sure the Brits would ever notice. They did manage the transition from the old p to the new p and such.Actually, the old penny was a 'd', supposedly from 'denarius'. The pound sign was basically a fancy 'L' and the symbols for pounds, shillings and pence were based on librum, solidus and denarius. [The ASCII character set didn't include the pound symbol and often this would print as an octothorpe or hash symbol, thus leading to rather strained jokes about the connection between LSD and hash.] Does "Bob" still have any monetary meaning? I did find Andy Capp to be rather humorous asking for "a bob" and all. It was much more recently I figured out why he called everyone Gov'. Very rarely you might hear the expression 'as bent as a nine bob note', otherwise it's gone the way of the tanner. Incidentally, the old two bob bit (24d or 10p) was also called a 'florin' and was some sort of early experiment with decimalisation. And one pound sterling of old pennies - that's 240 of them - would weigh five pounds avoirdupois. Three pennies to the ounce. -- Cheers Clive
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On 14-Nov-21 9:32 pm, Clive Arthur wrote:> On 13/11/2021 23:47, John Robertson wrote: > > <snip> > >> I had the capitals incorrect - I put mHz, he corrected to MHz, MHZ is >> also correct. mHz is just wrong... >> >> https://www.abbreviations.com/abbreviation/MegaHertz >> >> FFF is For F...(s) Sake. >> >> John ;-#)# > > MHZ is certainly not correct! > > mHz (millihertz) is commonly used in seismometry for example. > > Basic stuff like this matters. >Yes. Every time I read about a power station producing some number of mW, I wonder whether someone got scammed. Sylvia.
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On 15/11/21 10:51, Sylvia Else wrote:> On 14-Nov-21 9:32 pm, Clive Arthur wrote: >> On 13/11/2021 23:47, John Robertson wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >>> I had the capitals incorrect - I put mHz, he corrected to MHz, MHZ is also >>> correct. mHz is just wrong... >>> >>> https://www.abbreviations.com/abbreviation/MegaHertz >>> >>> FFF is For F...(s) Sake. >>> >>> John ;-#)# >> >> MHZ is certainly not correct! >> >> mHz (millihertz) is commonly used in seismometry for example. >> >> Basic stuff like this matters. >> > > Yes. > > Every time I read about a power station producing some number of mW, I wonder > whether someone got scammed. > > Sylvia.It is a useful "bozo filter", as is confusing MW and MWh.
