> > Next we had (or rather: I gave them) the answer: 0.001 
> seconds. Now I
> > asked: how do you prounce that. They had a vague idea that 
> > milliseconds and microseconds are both small, but could not 
> say which 
> > was smaller, or which was 0.001.
> 
> To put things even worse, the pupils in a 9th grade public 
> school here in Sweden does not know how many cm (centimeters) 
> is a m (meter).

OK, so no outsourcing to sweden :(

Wouter van Ooijen

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