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20°C is acceptable 40 mm wide absolute pressure acceptable 12 ampere ANMC ASTM billionth candela Capital and Lowercase centi comma Committee on Metric compound unit cubic meter customary value Decimal Marker decimal point degree Celsius Examples giga G gram Group for ISO/TC12 Grouping of Digits hectare hecto hertz hyphen joule kelvin kg/m³ kilo kilogram Kilopascal kilowatt km which rounds km/mi kW.h language of measurement liter measured in newtons meter per second Metric Practice Committee metric system metric units metric value Metrication Panel milligram milliliter mPa·s newton meter numerical values pascal plane angle Plural Name preferred Prefix Symbol pressure of 13 product dot Pronounce pronunciation Put the accent quantity Quotients Recommendation 2.4 rolling the platen second syllable significant digit simulated by rolling slash superscript Symbols for units typewriters unit name UNIT PREFIXES unit symbol unit-multiples USA Technical Advisory values may require viscosity Vowel word weight write the symbol