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)?

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