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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?
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
[followups to lugnet.off-topic.geek]
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