Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Metric Mnemonics

             Metric Mnemonics

 

 

            This is in honor of, and as a correction to, XKCD’s “new science

mnemonics” cartoon, at:

http://xkcd.com/992/

 

            SI Prefixes:

 

            Kilo, Mega, Giga, Tera, Peta, Exa, Zetta, Yotta

            Milli, Micro, Nano, Pico, Femto, Atto, Zepto, Yocto

           

            Karl Marx Gave The Proletariat Eleven Zesty Yetis.

            Microsoft Made No Products Featuring A Zapped Yak.

 

            Geologic Periods:

            Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleogene, Neogene

 

            Please Cancel Old Systems Demanding Credulous Piety; They Just Can’t Please Nature.

 

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