On 6/18/07, Tony Smith wrote: > I'd have called it the centametre - take that, you underachieving Swedish > kids. Now your measurements can really be out be a few magnitudes. The > panels are how big? They power how much? > http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/58474.html "The other ones, you just have to memorize. Sorry! In a perfect world, 'kilo' would be 'milla', and 'hecto' would be 'centa', so it would look like 1 millameter = 1000 meters 1 centameter = 100 meters 1 decameter = 10 meters 1 meter = 1 meter 1 decimeter = 1/10 of a meter 1 centimeter = 1/100 of a meter 1 millimeter = 1/1000 of a meter which would reduce the amount that you'd have to remember, but it would be tough to tell sometimes whether someone was saying 'centimeter' or 'centameter', or 'millimeter' or 'millameter', so maybe it's not such a good idea after all. (Note that there is no confusion between 'deci', in which the 'c' sounds like an 's', and 'deca', in which the 'c' sounds like a 'k'.)" -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist