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applfanboysbgonyesterday at 5:51 PM1 replyview on HN

You had the right idea. Angstroms are not an SI unit. The SI units jump by three orders of magnitude at this scale: picometer, nanometer, micrometer, millimeter.

(In the same way that meter jumps three orders of magnitude to kilometer[1], or millions to billions to trillions, etc.)

[1] Technically there are intermediate SI units between meter and km but nobody uses them. There are not intermediate SI units between the tiny ones.


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SoftTalkeryesterday at 6:03 PM

Why above 1mm do we go by tens instead of thousands?

We have centimeter (10 mm) then decimeter (100mm) then meter (1000mm). Then we jump to thousand again (kilometer).

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