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You mean the smallest distance we can measure?

Practically speaking, it is probably around 1 Angstrom. This requires very special techniques however (scanning tunneling microscopes for example). 1 Angstrom is 10 million times smaller than a millimeter. 1000 times smaller than a millimeter is a micron, which is the sort of scale used in manufacturing computer chips and is about as small as you can see with normal light microscopes.

There are measurements smaller than 1 Angstrom - 1 picometer is 100 times smaller, and 1 femtometer (also known as a fermi) is 100,000 times smaller, and is about the size of an atomic nucleus. But there are not any technolo- gies available to practically do anything on that kind of length scale, so the smallest useful scale is about an Angstrom.

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