Ma Be wrote: >>>So, I'm really sorry if I can't shed one picoliter of tear in >>>favor of this thing! >> >>Or in SI units: >>'one cubic femtometer of tear'. >> >In SI the prefixed unit IS powered to whatever power >is in question.
Thanks for correcting my silly mistake. >The reason I used picoliter was because this prefixed unit >has already made inroads into the computer industry for the >size of bubble jet dots, Aha. I wasn't aware of this application. >and unfortunately this would NOT >have an exact equivalent in SI for the following reason: >We do not have a 10^-5 prefix. Please note: >1 picoliter = 10^-15 cubic meter = (10^-5)^3 cubic meter So we would take the next smallest prefix that would bring the value into a reasonable range. Is a picoliter equal to 10 cubic micrometers (10 �m^3)?
