Orders of magnitude - thank you guys

Posted by Jose Carlos November 02, 2004In reply to Orders of magnitude posted by Jose Carlos on November 01, 2004

"Companies with just a toehold in the field of nanotechnology thus eagerly embrace their nano side.
For example, U.S. Global Aerospace provides
security devices for passenger and
military vehicles. After it developed a secure
cockpit door that used nanofiber technology,
company executives quickly changed
the firm's name to U.S. Global Nanospace,
a shrinkage of 14 orders of magnitude."

Please, can anyone explain what these 14 orders of magnitude are about? Thanks.

Jose Carlos

Actually I was able to get through the author himself and this is what he told me:

Regards,