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Re: For the metrically challenged...

To: "Erik Quackenbush" <erik@midwestfilter.com>, "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: For the metrically challenged...
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 22:44:40 -0500

>nano = billionth
>micro = millionth
>milli = thousandth
>centi = hundredth
>kilo = thousand
>mega = million
>giga = billion
>
>
>We get:
>
>1 microphone is one millionth of a phone.
>
>Therefore I million microphones= 1 phone. One million milliphones would be
>one kilophone.


Memo to me:  Think faster.  Type slower.

Phil Ethier    Saint Paul  Minnesota  USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
LOON, MAC   pethier@isd.net     http://www.mnautox.com/
"It makes a nice noise when it goes faster"
- 4-year-old Adam, upon seeing a bitmap of Grandma Susie's TR4.




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