Re: nice units

[rshotwel@ivy.tec.in.us (Allen Shotwell)]

I think that IUPAP dictates

1 millimicromousefart = 1 nanosbd (silent but deadly)

> Ludwik's reminded me to tell you of the new unit my son came home
> with at Christmas, the "foe". It is a unit that astrophysicists
> use in relation to phenomena in supernove.
>
>                                   51
>                         1 foe = 10   erg
>
> "foe" stands for "fifty-one ergs".
>                  -     -   -
>
> No, he doesn't often pull my leg.
>
> Leigh
>
> Anyone know the IUPAP abbreviation for the millimicromousefart?
R. Allen Shotwell
Chair, Science and Math
Ivy Tech State College
Terre Haute, IN USA