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Article #3564Re: New subject: Tesla vs gauss, and other obscure units
From: Andrew Karanicolas
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1989 23:23
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1989 23:23
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In article <851@ariel.unm.edu> ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu.UUCP (Duke McMullan n5gax) writes: >In article <1989Oct29.224736.2838@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) >writes: (lots of stuff deleted) >Habit, I suspect, coupled with the natural conservatism that we all possess. >This will change. How many people do you know who know the peta- and exa- >prefixes, and the femto- and atto- prefixes? (Admittedly not useful to most >of us, unless you're measuring the circumference of Pluto's orbit in electronic >radii....;^) > In the microelectronics world, thinking in terms of femtofarads is fairly commonplace. For example, in calculations of gate-source capacitances for a minimum feature size MOS device. .
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!mit-amt!mit-caf!ankleand From: ankleand@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Andrew Karanicolas) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.ham-radio Subject: Re: New subject: Tesla vs gauss, and other obscure units Message-ID: <3382@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> Date: 30 Oct 89 23:23:35 GMT References: <1914@sactoh0.UUCP> <28601@buckaroo.mips.COM> <1989Oct29.174631.12960@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1989Oct29.224736.2838@utzoo.uucp> <851@ariel.unm.edu> Reply-To: ankleand@mit-caf.UUCP (Andrew Karanicolas) Organization: Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MIT Lines: 16