--- Bill Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 2008 Jan 26 , at 3:40 PM, Stan Jakuba wrote:
>
> > The attached distance-scaling video is understandable in any
> > language but only SI experts will notice the discrepancies between
> > the powers of 10 and the notations underneath.
> >
> > <Fantasticky vylet[1].pps>
>
> Regarding Stan's comment: I don't think there was a discrepancy. The
> powers of ten shown were not intended to represent the distances
> written below them on the slides. (Perhaps that was explained in the
> text which I couldn't read. Was it Slovakian? Any language lessons
> available, Stan?)
>
> The powers of ten in EVERY case represented the number of METRES that
> was the width and height of the square view shown. It was always in
> metres, even though the value below it were usually not; they were
> clearly given with appropriate units and seemed to be the equivalent
> in kilometres, and other units.
No, they were clearly not. As Bill Potts and I both pointed out, the smaller
powers of 10 were
labeled very incorrectly. 10 angstroms is not 1/10 of 1 angstrom. 100 microns
is not 1/10 of 10
microns. And so on.
The language may possibly have been Czech.
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