On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 03:36:42AM +1100, Geoff Huston wrote: > I’m was not raising an issue with the use of units of one tenth of a second - I was expressing the thought that the term “centisecond” is an unusual term in English, and as a native speaker I haver also followed a convention of using the units of “tenths of seconds”, “hundredths of a second” and then heading to milliseconds, nano seconds. Until now I had never seen the term “centiseconds” and I would claim that I am familiar with scientific English. For what little it's worth, I think I have pretty solid credentials for "familiarity with scientific English" (Ph.D. in Chemistry), and I find the deci- and centi- SI prefixes to be completely natural. It is perhaps interesting that deca- and hecto- are not so natural, which I might ascribe to the liter being a rather large volume on laboratory scales, so that centiliters and deciliters are often used. -Ben -- last-call mailing list last-call@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/last-call
