On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:57:34 Pat Naughtin wrote: >Dear All, > >At our local 'Officeworks' store I found a copyright leaflet near the 'Copy >Centre' that used a drawing of a running shoe as its principle illustration. >...My guess is that the units are tenths of millimetres (decimillimetres ?) as >a shoe could reasonably be 280 millimetres long...
Interesting. If people recall I have vehicled here sometime ago a suggestion/proposal for us to create a special prefix for 10 to minus 4 for the computer industry. I called that "ty" (for typo). I also said that it could be regarded as a unit in itself (1 ty = 1 x 10^-4 m) (like the japanese 'Q' thing). Perhaps there would be one extra application for the ty after all... ;-) Marcus ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
