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From: kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer)
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Subject: Re: scientific prefixes
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Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 18:13:06 EST
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>One of my favorite units of measure is the femtoparsec, or about 19
>miles.  ("I commute .6 femtoparsecs a day....")

0.6 femtoparsecs is about 60 feet.  What you're describing is a picoparsec.

I like to give velocity figures in nanoc or picoc.

Credit to Tim X Rentsch for observing that the optimal length of a lecture
hour is one microcentury.

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