Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:46:05 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Useful Metric Conversions Message-ID: <200003161046.LAA36557@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <8ap37f$n4b$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> wrote in list.freebsd-chat:
> 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
Shouldn't that be a trillion?
micro- == 1e-6, mega- == 1e+6, so the factor is 1e12 which
whould be 1 trillion (at least in the US; in Germany it's
"1 Billion", confusingly).
Regards
Oliver
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