On Friday 02 December 2005 15:42, Terry Simpson wrote: > An item weighing 26 picograms would be coded as: > 3109 000026 > > Translating the digits in turn: > 310 = this tells you that the value to follow will be a weight in kg > 9 = tells you that you will need to move the decimal nine places left > 000026 = 0.000000026 kg
10^-9 kilogram is a microgram, not a picogram. The unfinished draft is at http://phma.hn.org/Metric/unit-codes.html . phma
