Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwmcsd1.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!uwmcsd1!jgd
From: jgd@uwmcsd1.UUCP (John G Dobnick)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: scientific prefixes
Message-ID: <1051@uwmcsd1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 22:32:00 EST
Article-I.D.: uwmcsd1.1051
Posted: Fri Mar 21 22:32:00 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Mar-86 07:16:10 EST
References: <153@hope.UUCP> <143@atari.UUcp> <564@cisden.UUCP>
Distribution: net
Organization: U of Wis - Milwaukee, Computing Services
Lines: 11

> I'm partial to the microyear, also called half-a-minute.  You can get
> odd looks when you say "I'll be back in three or four microyears."

Let's not forget the much maligned millifortnight!

(The length of which is left as an exercise for the reader.)
-- 
--
John G Dobnick
Computing Services Division @ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
UUCP: ...ihnp4!uwmcsd1!jgd	INTERNET: uwmacc!uwmcsd1!jgd@rsch.wisc.edu