Timeline for Is there a rule on which order to write derived SI units?
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| Sep 8, 2022 at 7:09 | history | edited | Urb | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 10, 2018 at 7:37 | comment | added | Ng Chung Tak | For your interest, the SI units are usually referred as MKS systems (i.e. metre-kilogram-second); whereas Gaussian units as CGS systems (i.e. centimetre-gram-second). | |
| Jun 9, 2018 at 17:06 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhysics/status/1005496482500358144 | ||
| Jun 9, 2018 at 14:45 | comment | added | nowox | @BenCrowell, this is well seen. | |
| Jun 9, 2018 at 14:43 | comment | added | user4552 | People normally write the units of work as $\text{N}\cdot\text{m}$ rather than $\text{m}\cdot\text{N}$. I've always assumed this was to keep it from looking like millinewtons. Cf. foot-pounds. | |
| Jun 9, 2018 at 14:35 | answer | added | Jasper | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 9, 2018 at 14:33 | comment | added | nowox | @Jasper, Well, I am blind then :( | |
| Jun 9, 2018 at 14:31 | comment | added | Kyle Kanos | I've never noted any required ordering in my career, though it is usual to put denominators last. | |
| Jun 9, 2018 at 14:30 | comment | added | Jasper | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… | |
| Jun 9, 2018 at 14:07 | history | asked | nowox | CC BY-SA 4.0 |