2006-09-19 14:24:28 · 3 answers · asked by freakishjunky8 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Your question doesnt really make sense. For one thing you have an extra 'what' in there that makes it confusing. Plus, I dont think there is such a thing as a "yactometer", so I'm assuming you mean "yoctometer".
Its easier to understand a 'yoctometer' when you think about a meter and a kilometer or a meter and a centimeter.
kilometer = 1000 meters
centimeter = 1/100 meters
Kilometer is going up and multiplying meters by 1000. Likewise, a centimeter is only a fraction of a meter, so its much smaller.
As small as a centimeter is, a yoctometer is very very very smaller. To put it mathematically, a yoctometer is 10^-24th of a meter.
Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yocto to find the prefixes for an amount larger or smaller than a unit. I mean unit because it works beyond meters. You can have a kiloGRAM, or a centiGRAM, or even a yoctoGRAM too, I'm sure. Since meter or gram is the base quantity, the prefixes allow us to talk about more than or less than that quantity.
So in short, a yoctometer is just another way to measure very very small sizes, like the small small size of the atom.
2006-09-19 14:49:40 · answer #1 · answered by jenNdan18286 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definition of Yoctometer (10^-24, one septillionth)
2006-09-19 21:25:28 · answer #2 · answered by ndtaya 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My girlfriend who is like so hot came round to my place with her mom who is like so hot and they both enjoyed my yacometer so much my yac hurt for a few days
how about that for a really bad example?
*groan*
2006-09-19 21:28:31 · answer #3 · answered by realdragonflame 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋