But according to a new study, if you think about time in smaller units – so days, for example, rather than months or years– you are likely to start a task more quickly.
But the calories listed on your can of soda are actually kilocalories—each one equal to 1, 000 of the “small calories” that chemists use to measure energy.
Even though The United States is made up of smaller units called " states, " they are not sovereign countries and are not internationally recognized as such.
And when using smaller units of measurement like I assume NOAA was using, it's not that hard to see how they came up with the Louisiana coast being more than twice as long as the California coast.
For Democritus it was all-important to establish that the constituent parts that everything else was composed of could not be divided indefinitely into smaller parts.
If you want to measure the full length including all of the curves, then you've got to use a smaller unit of measurement broken up into smaller chunks.