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In a message dated 3/30/01 6:57:36 PM, christiang@cc*.co*.au* writes:

<< deci     (d) means one tenth
centi    (c) means one hundredth
milli      (m) means one thousandth
micro   (*) means one millionth
nano    (n) means one thousand millionth
* curiously there is no abbreviation for micro >>

If you want to get into this stuff, though for the life of me I can't figure 
out why, then add ""pico   (p) means one million millionth" and also that (u) 
is often used as the abbreviation for micro.  I always thought that this came 
from the rough similarity between the lower case "u" and the Greek letter 
"mu".
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