Talk:1 yoctometre

This article was nominated for deletion on 18 March 2008. The result of the discussion was Keep.

Rename proposal[edit]

At AFD I argued: Rename and redirect, and let's argue instead about what their base names should be, which is the whole problem. I propose "1 yoctometre", "100 zeptometres", etc., through "100 yottametres". For purposes of people finding them, redirect from many other potential versions such as "1 centimeter" = "1 centimetre", "ten nanometres" = "10 nanometres" (these first two also combine), "1hm" = "1 hm" = "1 hectometre", "one thousandth metre" = "1 millimetre", "one milliard metres" = "1 gigametre" (use of >100 and <.01 is limited only to text, and only with meter and metre), "one billion metres" = "1 gigametre" (not "1 terametre"), and occasional exceptions like "1 myriameter" = "10 kilometres". Also add to disambiguation pages like "10K". That should be enough to define a system, y'all can take it from there. John J. Bulten (talk) 14:39, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This seems to be the current consensus... the low and high ends of the scale need to be compressed, as with most of these scales. I suggest 6 orders of magnitude until you get to an order that has significant text. +sj + 22:08, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]