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-> What kind of present did you buy to your family or yourself fover the Holiday Season?

High Tech stufff, bought on the internet: too cold/lazy/crowdy to go outside!
High Tech stuff, but bought directly in the shop: I was too late to order...
More traditional stuff because my family is not that nerdy, but ordered on the internet because damn I am a nerd!
More traditional stuff, and in shops... I am a nerd but I am late... And Damn all those crowds!
I don't buy presents. I don't have family nor friends. I am the only one here who can really pretend to be a Nerd...

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Let's get small! Really small ....

14 April, 2004

No, I haven't either before today. Although scientists have been able to measure an attogram the scale now goes further.



Man, that's a tiny balance!


The scale goes down to zetto and yocto (10^-21 and 10^-24 respectively). Zetta and Yocta are the large-scale opposites. Check out the details at the NIST.