Talk:Millioctave

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)

I agree. I also found that the same change was done on Wikipedia almost two years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Millioctave&oldid=937097486). --Fredg999 (talk) 20:34, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Ah, good find. (This link showed the diff for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Millioctave&type=revision&diff=954343791&oldid=937097486). Alright, I've made the change. Thanks. --Cmloegcmluin (talk) 20:22, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

I reintroduced the old/German mO to get rid of the MO page. From a historic perspective, it might be better to have it on board, I remember reading ethnomusicological papers that were based on mO. --Xenwolf (talk) 18:04, 26 February 2022 (UTC)