picoliter

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Which is SMALLER, 4 picoliter or 2 picoliter?

-- Arnie Abegg (a2@earthlink.net), July 22, 2000

Answers

A picoliter is one billionth of a liter. 2 picoliters is half as much as 4 picoliters.

-- Steve Dean (hdrulz@swbell.net), July 23, 2000.

Oops. That should have been one trillionth (10 to the -12th power), not billionth.

-- Steve Dean (hdrulz@swbell.net), July 23, 2000.

Phew, glad we got that picoliter/billionth/trillionth thing cleared up... My martinis had WAAAAAY too much Vermouth in them! ;-P

-- -the Ghost of Dean Martin (gmp@surferz.net), July 23, 2000.

You were right the first time Steve. A European billion (the real deal) is a million million. A picolitre is 0.000000000001 litre. And how could 4 of something possibly be smaller than 2 of something?

-- Pete Andrews (p.l.andrews@bham.ac.uk), July 24, 2000.

How can 4 be smaller than a 2 you ask? Well..in fractions 1/4 is half the size of 1/2

-- Julie Lance (jll8@geneseo.edu), January 08, 2003.


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