From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 16 2:46: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16A0437C067 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 02:46:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA36557; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:46:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:46:05 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200003161046.LAA36557@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Useful Metric Conversions X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: <8ap37f$n4b$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Ovens 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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message