On Saturday 26 January 2008 19:25, Ziser, Jesse wrote:
> The microns, angstroms, and other units below millimeters in the
> presentation were all messed up. Someone accidentally put them in the order
> 1, 10, 100 instead of 100, 10, 1 as they should have been. That's all.
No it's not all. They left out the megameter (and I'd have used Colombia or
Egypt for that, both being about 1 Mm²) and higher prefixes, equated the
light-year with a power of 10 times a meter, and used the
nonexistent "photometer" instead of, I'm guessing, the femtometer.
That's not Polish, by the way, but Slovak (unless it's Czech - I don't know
them apart for sure). Why is it "10 000 světelných let" but "100 000
světelných roků"? In Russian they would both be "let"; the forms "god"
and "goda" are used if the units digit is 1 and 2-4. ("God" is used instead
of "rok" in Russian.)
Pierre
