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From: john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley)
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Subject: Re: scientific prefixes
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Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 11:31:52 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....")

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."

(There are exactly pi * 10^7 seconds in a year.)  (Well, maybe not
exactly, but it's easy to remember.)