Bill & Pat et al. Thanks again for the mnemonics for the prefixes. Any more suggestions? For kids reasons, "Zaps" could be used instead of "Zits" Kids and others understand ZAP here in the US. "Z" & "A" are characters in "Zeta" - an advantage. Also "Killer" uses the same first three characters as in "kilo" which is an advantage. How about "Yo!" for "Yotta" meaning attention?
I'd like to pick up this when these are refined and then ask the MCPS to include them on its Make Metric Meaningful web page with appropriate credits.. What do you think? It this type of approach which can help to get the SI into the learning cycle. Regards, Stan Doore ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Naughtin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 4:46 PM Subject: [USMA:28705] SI prefix mnemonic Dear Bill and All, Prefixes less than 1 (sub-multiples) millie, mike's nana, pickled fish at zepto's yacht(o) milli micro nano pica femto atto zepto yocto m � n p f a z y 10^-3 10^-6 10^-9 10^-12 10^-15 10^-18 10^-21 10^-24 Note: I considered fems instead of fish, but I couldn't bear its sound or its political incorrectness. Prefixes more than 1 (multiples) killer Meg, Giggling, Terrified Peter's Extra Zits. Yuk! kilo mega giga tera peta exa zetta yotta k M G T P E Z Y 10^3 10^6 10^9 10^12 10^15 10^18 10^21 10^24 Note: I considered 'kindly Meg' but then I grew to like 'killer Meg' much better.
