[USMA:23936] Re: Shoe sizes

[Joseph B. Reid]

John David Galt wrote in USMA 23927:

 > There is no such thing as a 'decimillimetre'. You cannot combine

 prefixes. You would need to say 0.1 millimetre or 100 micrometre.

                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^
Shouldn't that word be micron?  At least in the USA, a "micrometer" is a
gadget for measuring small distances, not a distance itself.

"Micron" is an obsolete name for micrometre. A micrometer is an instrument for measuring micrometres.

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