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by nayuki 640 days ago
> assumed "giga" is capitalised because it one might confuse a lower case g for "grams"

Note that m is milli and m is metre; overlap hasn't stopped collisions between prefixes and units.

> "Hz" could just be "H"

No, H is henry (for inductance). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_(unit)