X-Message-Number: 24074 From: "michaelprice" <> References: <> Subject: Square metre and metres squared Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 01:10:19 +0100 Olaf complains: > In Message #24054 Michael Price discussed with somebody > else the space required to accommodate a bundle of 1 billion > connections with a diameter of 1 nanometer each. Both > estimates provided were out by several orders of magnitude. Several orders of magnitude? I deliberately neglected pi and produced an estimate of a billioneth of a metre squared (i.e. 10^-9 m^2) -- which was the same as your answer! I guess you thought I meant "a (billioneth of a metre) squared" but I meant ""a billioneth of a (metre squared)", which is implied since the answer has to be in units of area. Perhaps it would have been clearer if I'd said a billioneth of a square metre. Cheers, Michael C Price http://mcp.longevity-report.com http://www.hedweb.com/manworld.htm PS metre (UK) = meter (US) Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24074