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by readthenotes1 648 days ago
60 watts , later 20 kW.

I don't know, but it seems to me that if they wanted to be scientific they wouldn't be seemingly arbitrary in the capitalization rules

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I had structural engineering and electronics in school and especially when you get compound units like Nm (newton meters) not wondering if the N is a newton or the SI-prefix nano is not nothing.

In the end the reason for the weird capitalization is just to avoid situations where that ambiguity will occur.

I remember me and a friend asking our physics teacher if it wasn't a problem that tera (T) and tesla (T) were the same symbol. He looked at us, paused a bit, then explained how absolutely enormous a terra tesla would be, and thus why that isn't actually an issue :P