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--part1_17.13d2bc1f.27f8bafe_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/31/01 12:08:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ScottBonis@ao*.co* writes: > n 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". > The actual symbol is the Greek letter (mu), not the Roman letter "u". --part1_17.13d2bc1f.27f8bafe_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT COLOR="#800040" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0">In a message dated 3/31/01 12:08:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, <BR>ScottBonis@ao*.co* writes: <BR> <BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">n a message dated 3/30/01 6:57:36 PM, christiang@cc*.co*.au* writes: <BR> <BR><< deci (d) means one tenth <BR>centi (c) means one hundredth <BR>milli (m) means one thousandth <BR>micro (*) means one millionth <BR>nano (n) means one thousand millionth <BR>* curiously there is no abbreviation for micro >> <BR> <BR>If you want to get into this stuff, though for the life of me I can't <BR>figure <BR>out why, then add ""pico (p) means one million millionth" and also that <BR>(u) <BR>is often used as the abbreviation for micro. I always thought that this <BR>came <BR>from the rough similarity between the lower case "u" and the Greek letter <BR>"mu". <BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE> <BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#800040" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0"> <BR>The actual symbol is the Greek letter (mu), not the Roman letter "u". </FONT></HTML> --part1_17.13d2bc1f.27f8bafe_boundary-- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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