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--- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, "HandyDad" <lsulky@r...> wrote: > --- In ceqli@yahoogroups.com, Rex May - Baloo <rmay@m...> > wrote: > > Question: Do we want to keep "gram" for 'mail,' and distort to > "grame" or > > whatever for 'gram' as in 'kilogram,' or do we want to make > "grama" the word > > for 'mail,' (which is closer to the Greek) and then have "gram" > for 'gram'? > > I'm inclined to the latter. Good. Now, "gram" = gram and "grama" = mail. I'll fix the glossary. > > It occurs to me in the light of day that an alternative would be to > make compounds out of the words for "three-zeroes", > "six-zeroes", etc. and have them be our "kilo" and "mega". But > the current prefixes are so well established throughout the > world....and I'm not clear how we'd do "milli" and "micro". We'll keep what we can -- kilo, tera, distort some. centi > ceni, anagram some -- mega > gema, milli > hemili > > Maybe we should also be asking "how do we represent powers, > particularly powers of 10"? I think this way. 10^2 to be read "hanzoy pawa du"