I sure enough did! Ah.. better listen to Shaun.
Regards, Bob.... -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!" - Benjamin Franklin From: "Shaun Canning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bob, I rest my case. You have done exactly the same thing I did! > > Cheers > > Shaun > > Bob Blakely wrote: > > Sorry, but "�m" is the abbreviation for micrometer which is one billionth of > > a meter. The correct abbreviation for nanometer is "nm". > > > > Decimeter (dm) is one tenth of a meter - 1/10 meter. > > Centimeter (cm) is one hundredth of a meter - 10^(-2) meter. > > Millimeter (mm) is one thousandth of a meter - 10^(-3) meter. > > Micrometer (�m) is one millionth of a meter - 10^(-6) meter. > > Nanometer (nm) is one billionth of a meter - 10^(-9) meter. > > Picometer (pm) is 10^(-12) meter. > > > > Why is the word abbreviation so long? > > > > Regards, > > Bob.... > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!" > > - Benjamin Franklin > > > > From: "Shaun Canning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > >>Sorry gang...in one of yesterdays posts I referred to a nanometer (�m)as > >>a millionth of a meter when in fact it is one billionth of a meter.
