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Re: Yoctofig scale Death Star!! (Was:My House in Microfig)
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On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 08:06:58PM +0000, Robert Munafo wrote:
The other little-known small scale SI prefixes are femto- for 10^-15, atto- for
10^-18, and zepto- for 10^-21.

Isn't Zepto one of the Marx brothers?

*ducks*

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  Re: Yoctofig scale Death Star!! (Was:My House in Microfig)
 
(...) yocto- is the SI prefix for the scaling factor 10 to the power of -24. In the LEGO community (as far as I've seen so far) the SI prefixes micro- and nano- have been used to expand on the idea of "minifig scale", which is roughly 1:40 scale. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)

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