absolutely agree with OP !
Mostly people doesn't know what is "m, u, μ" thing except they usually work with (ex:physicists) or learn about conversion
Most people in the
world do know milli (10
-3) and micro (10
-6). These are standard in SI units.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI Now if you talking about USA, maybe you have a point, but the USA is has less than 4% of the world's population.