Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Unclear On The Metric Concept Message-ID: Date: 2 Nov 90 01:17:51 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Inland Sea Lines: 17 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu Saw this lovely in November 1990 'Readers Digest', article "Dawn Of The Tiny Tech Age": " . . . in this world of nonotechnology (from the Greek nanos, or dwarf) . . ." Forgiveable? See my new .sig, below. -- " . . . within a nanometer (about a billionth of a yard) . . . " Reader's Digest, November 1990, pp. 31 [The prefix "nano-" does come from nanos meaning dwarf. R.D.'s identification of a meter with yard is a sad commentary on the scientific illiteracy of the American public... --JoSH]