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I don't see anything on WP anywhere saying "don't use SI prefixes". Go make a essay on why it's bad, Georgia Guy, so we can avoid this issue in the future. Otherwise, the first question will be "Why not use SI prefixes? They're used in lots of other things!"
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achieving, that does not , unfortunately, have anything to do with the merits of the article unless this is listed in some policy or guidline somewhere (which it may be -- I've been out of circulation for a while).
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