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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
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   Hibou   wrote:   
   >Le 27/12/2025 à 12:09, J. J. Lodder a écrit :   
   >> Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Before that, Celsius was most often called   
   >>> Centigrade, and Hertz was kilocycles.   
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   >A minor point: kilohertz were kilocycles. (However, 'Calorie' is often   
   >used to mean 'kilocalorie'.)   
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   >> 'Kilocycles' is an Americanism, for radio stations for example.   
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   >   
   >I think not. What else would others have used before kilohertz? All the   
   >great British wartime radio and radar development was done in cycles per   
   >second.   
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   >(Nothing to do with the Dutch vehicle-hire company, Hertz Van Rental.)   
   >   
   >There are many examples of "kilocycles per second" in, for instance,   
   >pre-War issues of the the British magazine 'Wireless World'.   
   >   
   >And in 'Electronic Computers', Ivall, 1960, I find: "With the   
   >audio-frequency type of junction transistors this limits the pulse   
   >repetition frequency to something in the region of 50 to 100 kc/s."   
   >   
   >(Jings! I've just ordered a mid-range phone that clocks at over 3 GHz.)   
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