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Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
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Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:12:57 GMT
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Great, now I´ll have to learn all of this ;-)
I didn´t know there was such defined standards for mini, micro and nanofigs.
But, well, times are changing....
But whats kibifig then?
--Tobias
<380a50fb.190663701@lugnet.com>...
> In lugnet.space, "Mike Poindexter" <lego@poindexter.cc> writes:
> > Mini is 1/1,000 and micro is 1/1,000,000.
>
> Yes, Micro- is 10^-6, but Mini- is not necessarily 10^-3. Mini- is any • size
> less than 1.
>
> Milli- is 10^-3.
>
>
> > Macro is 1,000 isn't it?
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> Macro is any size greater than 1 or greater than usual. It *can* be 10^3,
> but it isn't necessarily 10^3. Macroeconomics, for example, isn't about
> economics on the 1000x scale, nor is a macro-zoom lens a 1000x lens.
>
> Kilo- is what equals 10^3...unless you're talking about Kilobytes, in which
> case it means 2^10 instead of 10^3...unless you buy into this new "KKB"
> nonsense kicking around[1], in which case a Kilobyte has been redefined to
> 10^3 bytes and a "Kibibyte" is now what a "Kilobyte" used to be, namely • 2^10
> bytes. :-p
>
>
> > [...]
> > Macrofig would then be better to describe large scale buildings. As the • old
> > people and/or technic figs have been refered to as megafigs,
>
> I've never heard the old LEGO people referred to as "megafigs," but I have
> heard them referred to as "maxifigs." Where did you hear/see "megafig"?
> Mega- is 10^6, so a "megafig" would be a 1000000x fig.
>
>
> > what would be macrofig?
>
> That reminds me of an old Marvel comic book called The Micronauts, in which
> there was a Microverse and a Macroverse. (We humans existed in the
> Macroverse, IIRC.)
>
> Anyway, while it's clear that "minifig" came about directly from TLG's name
> Mini-Figure™, it's not clear how "maxifig" came about as a juxtoposition
> from "minifig" (that is, as opposed to "macrofig"). It's possible that the
> pre-existing feminine product terms "minipad" and "maxipad" may have had
> some sort of influence. (This is just speculation.) AFAIK, there's no • such
> thing as a "macropad."
>
> --Todd
>
> [1] http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
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>
> [followups to lugnet.off-topic.geek]
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