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they found 91 mmN of thrust and they claim their detector is sensitive to about 10mmN. that's almost an order of magnitude.

this doesn't mean that it sounds too good to be true.

edit: fixed units - dont have easy access to micro, thanks for pointing that out.



"u" is an acceptable replacement for "µ". I've never seen "milimili" (mm) before.

You can spell it out, like "91 micronewtons".

You can also use exponential notation like 91e-6 N or 91x10^(-6) N.

To be fancy you can copy-and-paste unicode characters and write 91×10⁻⁶ N.


I've seen "mm" used very frequently as millimetres. 1cm/2=5mm.


<Cough> You shocked me so much that I read the article! :-)

(I follow the subject by browsing news now and then at http://talk-polywell.org/ which really is about the small fusion projects. That place should have more details then at Wired.)

Use 'μ' for micro, 'm' is for milli.




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