Measure for Measure: The Story of Imperial, Metric and Other Units (original) (raw)

European Journal of Physics, 2004

Abstract

... Thanks likewise to Sheila Amos, Mt. ... 1.3): P from pente for 5, D from deka for 10, H from hekaton for 100, X from the Greek spelling of khilioi for 1000, and M from murioi for 10,000. The excep-tion is the 1, which was a vertical scratch (|). ...

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