# The Japanese Do It Again...
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-japanese-do-it-again/9278
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [March 14, 2006, 7:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-japanese-do-it-again/9278 "2006-03-14T07:03:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@RuBiCaNT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RuBiCaNT)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 7:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-japanese-do-it-again/9278/1 "2006-03-14T07:03:18Z")
“RESEARCHERS at Toyama University and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have invented a way of cutting up materials at the nanometre level, said the Nikkei Business Daily.”
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Pretty impressive but can it juliane french-fries?
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### Author:  [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 7:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-japanese-do-it-again/9278/2 "2006-03-14T07:19:01Z")
How many inches = 100 nanometres?
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-japanese-do-it-again/9278/3 "2006-03-14T07:23:44Z")
> [@AWDrifter](#):
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> How many inches = 100 nanometres?
3.93700787402 x 10^-8 in
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### Author:  [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 7:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-japanese-do-it-again/9278/4 "2006-03-14T07:26:06Z")
> [@Onyx Z32](#):
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> 3.93700787402 x 10^-8 in
Ummm, I was told there would be no math.
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-japanese-do-it-again/9278/5 "2006-03-14T07:28:25Z")
lol you asked. 🙂
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### Author:  [@carl5463729](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/carl5463729)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-japanese-do-it-again/9278/6 "2006-03-14T11:24:22Z")
so what is this good for??
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### Author:  [@Freek](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Freek)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 11:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-japanese-do-it-again/9278/7 "2006-03-14T11:32:58Z")
> [@carl5463729](#):
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> so what is this good for??
splitting hairs 🙂
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### Author:  [@AlbinoMonkeyRat](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AlbinoMonkeyRat)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 11:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-japanese-do-it-again/9278/8 "2006-03-14T11:39:40Z")
> [@Onyx Z32](#):
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> 3.93700787402 x 10^-8 in
actually, there’s 25,400,000 nanometers in one inch.
(there are a million nanometers in a millimeter, and 25.4 millimeters in an inch. 😉 )
edit: buh…I fail. I misunderstood the question and answered it the wrong way. But my info is still correct, if it EVER becomes useful.
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### Author:  [@JCuz](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JCuz)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 11:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-japanese-do-it-again/9278/9 "2006-03-14T11:40:06Z")
I need them to make me a sword
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 11:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-japanese-do-it-again/9278/10 "2006-03-14T11:41:48Z")
Oh, I suck at teh math.
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### Author:  [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 11:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-japanese-do-it-again/9278/11 "2006-03-14T11:56:14Z")
> [@AlbinoMonkeyRat](#):
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> actually, there’s 25,400,000 nanometers in one inch.
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> (there are a million nanometers in a millimeter, and 25.4 millimeters in an inch. 😉 )
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> edit: buh…I fail. I misunderstood the question and answered it the wrong way. But my info is still correct, if it EVER becomes useful.
So would .0000039" be 100 nanometres?
If so, that is like splitting a hair 650 times!
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### Author:  [@AlbinoMonkeyRat](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AlbinoMonkeyRat)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 12:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-japanese-do-it-again/9278/12 "2006-03-14T12:00:31Z")
Onyx is right on the number, but translating scientific notation owns my ass.
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### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 12:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-japanese-do-it-again/9278/13 "2006-03-14T12:01:52Z")
> [@AlbinoMonkeyRat](#):
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> Onyx is right on the number, but translating scientific notation owns my ass.
o rly?
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### Author:  [@AlbinoMonkeyRat](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AlbinoMonkeyRat)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-japanese-do-it-again/9278/14 "2006-03-14T13:49:53Z")
ya, rly.
I haven’t had to use it since I took a math test in high school 7 years ago. (I graduated in '01, but my last math class was in my sophomore year)
but thinking back on the question at hand.
it’s 3.9andabunchofinsignificantnumbers x10^-8
that would make it 0.000000039", right?