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To: BenLurkin
Each pit is about one micron wide. That's four ten-thousandths of an inch.

Just a quibble, but...

That is an order of magnitude off. Should be

about 0.4 ten thousandths of an inch.

12 posted on 05/14/2005 4:54:34 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The world needs more work horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
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To: ApplegateRanch
about 0.4 ten thousandths of an inch.

Or the easier said and (for me) remembered, "forty millionths" of an inch.
.000 040

13 posted on 05/14/2005 4:59:19 PM PDT by Cboldt
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