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IT is no doubt difficult for anyone to really conceive enormously great or infinitely small quantities. This difficulty is, however, much minimized by the ten and tenth notation. Indeed, if systematically used, I believe one's mental power of estimation would be practically perfect. But is it so used? I have before me three books—I only take this as an example of what frequently occurs—in which Joule's equivalent is given is:—
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MUIRHEAD, B. The Ten and Tenth Notation. Nature 41, 344 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041344c0
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