Teddington, UK -- Measurement scientists and government representatives from around the world at the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) in Versailles, France, on Friday 18 November 2022 ...
Say hello to the first new SI prefixes since 1991. At the humongous end of the scale, ronna and quecca now denote 10 27 and 10 30, respectively. Apparently, the mass of the Earth is six ronnagrams, or ...
Earth now weighs 6 Ronnagrams as new prefixes are added to the International Systems of Measurement. Paris: International scientists gathered in France on Friday to add new metric prefixes to express ...
In the world of science, SI prefixes are sacrosanct. Well, unless you happen to be a computing scientist, in which case the choice of prefix—mega vs mebi—can be a little controversial. It turns out ...
All the hella-haters can spin on it. I want “hella” as an SI-recognized prefix along with “mega” and “kilo.” And that’s why I’m about to do something I rarely ever do: join a Facebook group. Point ...
Scientists are lobbying for a new word to help them describe numbers larger than 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, amid concerns that the current system of units is insufficient. By Matthew Moore ...
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