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Enhancement Request - New Cache Size NANO


jshults (Rally Dude)

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I would like new cache sizes that distinguish between .30 cal ammo boxes and .50 cal ammo boxes. The skinnier boxes can be hidden in spots where I wouldn't think of looking for a .50 cal. This has delayed me on many a cache find, causing me to spend extra minutes out in the woods.

 

Since the size differential between .30 and .50 caliber is far greater than the difference between a nano and a micro, I trust that a higher priority will be accorded to my request.

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This would be great as the number of NANO caches seems to be growing lately...

 

:lol:

 

Do you have any idea how big a "nanometer" really is?

 

A nanometer is a unit of measure. Just like inches, feet and miles. By definition a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. A meter is about 39 inches long. A billion is a thousand times bigger than a million, as a number you write it out as 1,000,000,000. That is a big number and when you divide a meter into one billion pieces, well that is very small. So small you cannot see something a nanometer in size unless you use very powerful microscopes like atomic force microscopes.

 

Until cachers need Atomic Force Microscopes, no Nano size description is needed.

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This would be great as the number of NANO caches seems to be growing lately...

 

:lol:

 

Do you have any idea how big a "nanometer" really is?

 

A nanometer is a unit of measure. Just like inches, feet and miles. By definition a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. A meter is about 39 inches long. A billion is a thousand times bigger than a million, as a number you write it out as 1,000,000,000. That is a big number and when you divide a meter into one billion pieces, well that is very small. So small you cannot see something a nanometer in size unless you use very powerful microscopes like atomic force microscopes.

 

Until cachers need Atomic Force Microscopes, no Nano size description is needed.

:)

 

He said "NANO caches", not "Nanometer sized caches".

 

Two definitions for "Nano" that might be appropriate, from Dictionary.com are:

 

Extremely small: nanoid.

 

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[sI: the next quantifier below micro-;

 

It seems like a reasonable name to me, no need to get medieval on the guy.

 

Whether or not a new catagory (whatever the name might be) is necessary however, is something else entirely.

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This would be great as the number of NANO caches seems to be growing lately...

 

:lol:

 

Do you have any idea how big a "nanometer" really is?

 

A nanometer is a unit of measure. Just like inches, feet and miles. By definition a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. A meter is about 39 inches long. A billion is a thousand times bigger than a million, as a number you write it out as 1,000,000,000. That is a big number and when you divide a meter into one billion pieces, well that is very small. So small you cannot see something a nanometer in size unless you use very powerful microscopes like atomic force microscopes.

 

Until cachers need Atomic Force Microscopes, no Nano size description is needed.

Would you prefer we called them teeny tiny caches?
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