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saulpwtoday at 5:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

There are 3 orders of magnitude between nano (^-9) and pico (^-12). An Angstrom is ^-10m.


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1313ed01today at 5:58 PM

Useless fact I just learned from Wikipedia: Ångström/Angstrom (in Sweden of course we still use the original spelling) has its own UNICODE symbol, Angstrom sign: Å (U+212B) not to confuse with the Swedish letter Å (U+00C5). Looks slightly different in my browser.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angstrom

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mxuribetoday at 5:44 PM

Aaahhh, ok, thanks!

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