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Système International
« on: December 24, 2023, 10:09:57 PM »
These colorful circles caught my eye... Though I can't quite recall how I wound up looking at cases... Oh, I was trying to figure out why RN preceded Re in an ostensibly alphabetical sorting of labels.  And that led me to a wikipedia article about letter case.  I guess in the era in which this electronic medical record software was birthed, all capital letters are capitalized before all lower case letters.  And now, I finally know why we are supposed to type in caps lock by default (at this job).  I knew that you had to be in caps lock to enter provider labels.  What a sad revelation.

Well, anyway, my question is why mL has a capital L when it isn't derived from the name of a person. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Unit_symbols_and_prefixes_in_the_metric_system

P.S.  I hope you appreciate the 3 tries it took me to type my subject title correctly.
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