On decimal prefixes
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J.A. Prins
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Article
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1956
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Elsevier Science
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ON DECIMAL PREFIXES ' Decimal prefixes are mostly written in a convenient way, but pronounced in a very inconvenient way. For instance the nicely written symbol 10 -8 V is pronounced, according to the existing ules, as centimicrovolt. There is even a tendency to veto all noncubic powers, in which ca