[VoIP] 2600 Dial Pulse

windmill windmill at topletter.com
Thu Jan 10 23:22:54 CST 2008


Peter,

I've never seen the naming of units as a problem at all, what was a 
problem was conversion in most cases as when I went to school and later 
to college I was brought up on cgs, MKS and SI units.

Brian

Peter Duffield wrote:
> Hi Jayson
>
> The SI unit for frequency is the Hertz, which is named after the German
> physicist Heinrich Hertz.  The correct way to refer to it in writing is 
> 2600 Hz.  
>
> It meant so much more before they started naming International Standard units
> after notable people - cps or cycles per second was clear, concise, and to the
> point, and left nothing to the imagination.
>
> Peter


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