The Guinness Book of Superlatives by Guiness Books
Author:Guiness Books
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781945186455
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2017-02-01T05:00:00+00:00
MOST POWERFUL RADIO TRANSMITTER
The most powerful radio transmitter in the world is the U. S. Navy’s installation in Jim Creek Valley, Arlington, Washington, opened in November, 1953. It has a power output in excess of one million watts necessary to combat sunspot interference.
METROLOGY
In metrology the following prefixes have these meanings:—
In dealing with large numbers scientists use the notation of 10 raised to various powers to eliminate a profusion of noughts, for example, 19,160,000,000,000 miles would be written 19.16 × 1012 miles. Similarly a very small number of .0000154324 grain would be written 15.4324 × 10−6 grain.
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