On Saturday 2003 June 14 18:40, Chris KEENAN wrote: > On 2003 Jun 14 Saturday 18:26, James Frysinger wrote: .... > > 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."
Ah, that's one of those to-may-to to-mah-to things that we'll get to argue about in leisure once the entire world, including the U.S. of course, is fully metricated. Good to hear from you, Chris. I've not been paying to much attention to the list here lately. Jim
