On 2003 Jun 14 Saturday 18:26, James Frysinger wrote: > Posted a few moments ago. > > Jim > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: Egregious SI error in Random Samples > Date: Saturday 2003 June 14 14:25 ... > > The preceding statement in the article, "The forces are tiny---just 1/100 > billionths of a Newton", also includes the case error on the unit name but > it also expresses the force in a clumsy manner. There is good reason for > prefixes in the SI. That statement would be better written as "The forces > are tiny---just 0.01 nN" or "The forces are tiny---just 0.01 nanonewtons."
Jim: As you are being precise here, I would suggest that the correct usage is "0.01 nanonewton" - it's less than one, so not a plural. -- Chris KEENAN UK Metric Association www.metric.org.uk
