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From: Boris Gjenero <bgjenero@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
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Earle D. Jones wrote:
> 
> In article <32f33f36.1707932306@news.sci.fi>, keinanen@sci.fi (Paul
> Keinnen) wrote:
> 
> >mcripps@mergetel.com (mervyn) wrote:
> >
> >>In article <32EF445C.511D@rcp.co.uk> Alan Stokes <alan@rcp.co.uk> writes:
> ========Clip Here========
> 
> >Oh no, not again, 1 mHz is 1 millihertz = 0.001 Hz.
> >Those 133 mHz Pentiums must be really slow :-).
> >
> >This error of mixing mHz and MHz seems to be quite common in the
> >States, but rare in other parts of the world. Does anyone else have
> >similar observations ?
> >
> ==========
> 
> Just a comment:  In 40 years of an electrical engineering career, at all
> levels from junior technician to Vice President of an electronics R & D
> firm -- I have never heard the term *millihertz* used.
> 
> earle

Well, when the frequency is so low, it is natural to state the period
instead.
When you're told you get a pulse every so many seconds or minutes it is
a lot clearer than if you give some fractional frequency value. 
However, millihertz is still a valid unit according to the SI system.

BTW.  Would a Pentium work at 0.001 Hz?  Running a CPU at a low
frequency would be interesting.  However, not all CPUs can do that.  I
know some microcontrollers can work at ridiculously low frequencies, but
I doubt any high end CPUs are totally static.  There could very well be
a minimum clock frequency as well.   

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