Talk:Millioctave

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Unit abbreviation

I think unit abbreviation "mO" is incorrect. The correct unit abbreviation should be "moct".

  1. The official unit abbreviation for octaves is "oct" (Wikipedia:Octave_(electronics)), and the SI rules are to prefix the existing unit with an "m" for the milli- equivalent.
  2. Capital letters like "O" should only be used when the unit is named after a person (famous exception being L for liters).
  3. Capital "O" looks too much like the number 0 and are thereby disallowed. This is why Ohm got Ω instead. So we can't use it either.

Other considerations:

  1. "moct" is longer, but 3-4 character long unit abbreviations are not unheard of.
  2. In the Yahoo tuning list archives, there are no occurrences of "mO" being used for millioctaves, but several occurrences of "moct".

If there's agreement, I can update it here and the few other places it has propagated on the wiki.

--Cmloegcmluin (talk) 18:18, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

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