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- From: morgan@sitka.triumf.ca (Morgan Burke)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran,sci.engr.mech
- Subject: Re: SI Units Quiz
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 01:57:55 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan21.004320.16522@draco.macsch.com> <1993Jan21.095736.20138@hemlock.cray.com>
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- In article <1993Jan21.095736.20138@hemlock.cray.com>, jjd@cray.com (Jeff Drummond) writes:
- |> Too easy. Here's the prefix table from our units(1) command:
- |>
- |> 1e-24, "yocto",
- |> 1e-21, "zepto",
- [ ... ]
- |> 1e21, "zetta",
- |> 1e24, "yotta",
- |>
- |> The first two and last two were recent additions, as you probably know
- |> (see "Science News", 1/16/93).
- [ ... ]
- |> "10 yottaflops is a lotta flops." -me
-
- I propose a further extension:
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- 1e-30, "groucho",
- 1e-27, "harpo",
- and,
- 1e27, "harpi",
- 1e30, "grouchi",
-
- sorry, couldn't resist...
-
- -- Morgan Burke (morgan@sitka.triumf.ca)
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