Re: A86: Useful Information


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Re: A86: Useful Information




Thats exactly what I was wondering...  I used them to get the timing of my
IDE interface to coperate with my 68HC12 and MP3 decoder...

>I was being sarcastic.  Your measures have absolutely nothing to do with
>assembly.  (if I were looking for these prefixes, I would not go to the 86
>assembly list)
>
>Grant Stockly wrote:
>
>> I don't understand what you are getting at...  They are values that can be
>> used to measure things...
>>
>> >Hey, great!  Do these work in hex too?
>> >
>> >Grant Stockly wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello.  I compilied a list of common abbreaviations for you guys...  I had
>> >> some questions about the negitive incriments.  I hope you save this and
>> >> find it useful!
>> >>
>> >> Grant
>> >>
>> >> 10^18   exa     E
>> >> 10^15   pecta   P       (I know, I've heard "peta" too)
>> >> 10^12   tera    T
>> >> 10^9    giga    G       (first 'g' as in "gigantic" believe it or not)
>> >> 10^6    mega    M
>> >> 10^3    kilo    k       (note lowercase from here down)
>> >> 10^2    hecto   h       (not used much)
>> >> 10^1    deca    da
>> >> 10^-1   deci    d
>> >> 10^-2   centi   c
>> >> 10^-3   milli   m
>> >> 10^-6   micro   (greek mu)
>> >> 10^-9   nano    n
>> >> 10^-12  pico    p
>> >> 10^-15  femto   f
>> >> 10^-18  atto    a
>> >>
>> >> s       second  (time)
>> >> S       siemens (conductance)