[Milsurplus] Re: [TekScopes] Unit Conversions :-)

[Bob Kulow]

>Mmmmmm;;;;;
>"1 million microphones = 1 megaphone"
>
>Work on your prefixes:
>
>micro = 10exp-6 (1 millionth)
>mega = 10exp+6  (1 million)
>difference 10exp12 = 1 million million = 1 bazillion
>or about the number of dollars the government wastes every
>millisecond.


Actually, 10E6 and 10E-6 "cancel out" (my old HS math teacher would 
have a fit if she heard me say cancel out).  Anyway, one million 
millionths equals one.  So, one million microphones makes one phone.

73
Bob WA2UEH