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Reply to “Facing a shortage of the Latin letters for the prospective new SI symbols: alternative proposal for the new SI prefixes”

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Dominik Pražák recently published in this journal a thoughtful discussion of the implications of a shortage of Latin letters for use in the SI. This is a short reply, intended to develop the opinions in that article.

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This study was supported by the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Grant No. National Measurement System).

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    Richard J. C. Brown

  2. Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK

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Brown, R.J.C. Reply to “Facing a shortage of the Latin letters for the prospective new SI symbols: alternative proposal for the new SI prefixes”. Accred Qual Assur 27, 143–144 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00769-022-01499-7

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