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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A nanometer is a billionth of a meter. Or
10^-9 meters. A nanometer is 3 to 6 atoms across (depending on the atoms used).
It could be that there was just some typo in the document you read. </FONT><FONT
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 03, 2007 1:19
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [extropy-chat] a nano
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<DIV><BR></DIV>I have found a repeated discrepancy. Is a nanometer a
millionth or a billionth of a meter? The US gov't papers all say a
millionth (like the recent "The Future is Coming Sooner Than You Think" and
its earlier gov't source material), but I have read a billionth in other
places.<BR><BR>And the answer
is...?<BR><BR>Thanks!<BR><BR>PJ<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>extropy-chat
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