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Can the pages Megahertz, Kilohertz etc be more than stubs?
Should we redirect them here, where we can put a list of SI multiples? -- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tarquin ( talk • contribs) 12:26, 28 December 2002 (UTC)
Anybody know why in "kHz", the "k" is lower case, whereas in "MHz" the "M" is upper?
DanielVonEhren 21:46, 25 January 2005 (UTC)
Excellent! The Kilo page has all sorts of things I'd looked at all my life, but never really saw. Thanks Wellington (great place, by the way).
DanielVonEhren 05:35, 28 January 2005 (UTC)
To my knowledge, capital K is used in the binary system to indicate 1024. So kilobyte, Kb for short, is 1024 bytes, not 1000. Sven De Coster— Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.136.222.224 ( talk) 13:36, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Hertz is capitalized in abbreviations such as kHz and MHz, as it is derived from a last name, but according to NIST standards is not capitalized when used as a primary unit, such as a unit of frequency. Only when the proper name is used as a modifier of the primary unit, such as degrees Celsius, is the name capitalized. Some corresponding corrections have been made to the page. JM Dahl ( talk) 14:21, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
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The rad/s to Hz conversion shown is confusing. It would be clearer to write:
1 rad/s = 2π Hz, or 1 Hz = (1/2π) rad/s, where as usual the units follow the numerical measures. (I tried to edit the article, but my command of the syntax wasn't good enough.) Spock2 19:46, 25 July 2007 (UTC) |
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The bottom light should blink with 2 Hz, but one full on-off cycle takes 1 second, so it is actually 1 Hz. The definition of Hertz is for full cycles, not half cycles, so while it is true that the light is on for 0.5 seconds, that doesn't make the frequency 2 Hz. 130.75.213.44 ( talk) 10:53, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
Boppennoppy is correct. The authoritative source here is the SI Brochure, which defines the hertz (Hz) as 1 s-1. The cycle is not a unit. Dondervogel 2 ( talk) 15:58, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
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Can the pages Megahertz, Kilohertz etc be more than stubs?
Should we redirect them here, where we can put a list of SI multiples? -- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tarquin ( talk • contribs) 12:26, 28 December 2002 (UTC)
Anybody know why in "kHz", the "k" is lower case, whereas in "MHz" the "M" is upper?
DanielVonEhren 21:46, 25 January 2005 (UTC)
Excellent! The Kilo page has all sorts of things I'd looked at all my life, but never really saw. Thanks Wellington (great place, by the way).
DanielVonEhren 05:35, 28 January 2005 (UTC)
To my knowledge, capital K is used in the binary system to indicate 1024. So kilobyte, Kb for short, is 1024 bytes, not 1000. Sven De Coster— Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.136.222.224 ( talk) 13:36, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Hertz is capitalized in abbreviations such as kHz and MHz, as it is derived from a last name, but according to NIST standards is not capitalized when used as a primary unit, such as a unit of frequency. Only when the proper name is used as a modifier of the primary unit, such as degrees Celsius, is the name capitalized. Some corresponding corrections have been made to the page. JM Dahl ( talk) 14:21, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
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The rad/s to Hz conversion shown is confusing. It would be clearer to write:
1 rad/s = 2π Hz, or 1 Hz = (1/2π) rad/s, where as usual the units follow the numerical measures. (I tried to edit the article, but my command of the syntax wasn't good enough.) Spock2 19:46, 25 July 2007 (UTC) |
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The bottom light should blink with 2 Hz, but one full on-off cycle takes 1 second, so it is actually 1 Hz. The definition of Hertz is for full cycles, not half cycles, so while it is true that the light is on for 0.5 seconds, that doesn't make the frequency 2 Hz. 130.75.213.44 ( talk) 10:53, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
Boppennoppy is correct. The authoritative source here is the SI Brochure, which defines the hertz (Hz) as 1 s-1. The cycle is not a unit. Dondervogel 2 ( talk) 15:58, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
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