Jim Bramlett (3 Feb 2006)
"The earth and a plant cell"


Not sure what this means but some of you number crunchers may make something out of it:

Earth = 12.76 x 10+6 = 12,760,000 meters wide (12.76 million meters)

Plant Cell = 12.76 x 10-6 = 0.00001276 meters wide (12.76 millionths of a meter)

See universe and plant cell at  http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html

Jim