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Measurement units guidelines

(c) AMWA 2018, CC Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)

This document describes the guidelines on how to use measurement units when defining a measurement event type (see Event types - measurements).

Other sections can be accessed from the Overview.

1. Introduction

The aim of this document is to create a set of guidelines on how to use measurement units in the Event & Tally specification with the aim of increasing compatibility between implementations.

2. Guidelines

2.1. Case sensitive behaviour

Units of measurement must be case sensitive.

2.2 Recommended symbols

It is recommended to use the SI symbol associated with the unit of measurement whenever possible, with the following exceptions:

  • if the symbol is outside of the English alphabet use the English literal name (e.g. for resistance use ohm)
  • for degrees Celsius use C without the degrees symbol

2.3 Prefixes

The use of prefixes is allowed but discouraged apart from kg which is an SI base unit. The following further remarks apply to prefixes:

  • micro (10^-6) will be prefixed with u
  • k prefix will always stand for (10^3) units and not 2^10
  • M prefix will always stand for (10^6) units and not 2^20
  • G prefix will always stand for (10^9) units and not 2^30
  • and so on