On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:15:00  
 metric wrote:
>...
>Thanks for correcting my silly mistake.
>
Don't mention it.
>...
>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 5m^3)?
>
Actually, err... no...  If we use 10 to minus 6 as a prefix (micro), the result would 
be 10 to minus 18 for the volume, a difference of 10 to minus 3 (18 - 15).  Therefore, 
we'd be talking about 1 thousandth of a picoliter to equal 1 cubic micrometer.

Marcus


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