Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in
Say hello to ronnagrams and quettameters: International scientists gathered in France voted on Friday for new metric prefixes to express the world’s largest and smallest measurements, prompted by an ever-growing amount of data.
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Tau.Neutrino said:
Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted inSay hello to ronnagrams and quettameters: International scientists gathered in France voted on Friday for new metric prefixes to express the world’s largest and smallest measurements, prompted by an ever-growing amount of data.
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> A yottameter is a one followed by 24 zeroes.
Yotta, I know.
> ronnagrams which is a one followed by 27 zeroes.
> quettagrams a one followed by 30 zeros.
New. Good.
> he saw media reports using unsanctioned prefixes for data storage such as brontobytes and hellabytes. Google in particular has been using hella for bytes since 2010.
LOL.
We really need something better than “litres” to measure the volume of the Sun.
A “teralitre” is just one cubic km.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted inSay hello to ronnagrams and quettameters: International scientists gathered in France voted on Friday for new metric prefixes to express the world’s largest and smallest measurements, prompted by an ever-growing amount of data.
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Good
better just to numerically quantify, andor repeat the smaller multipliers
I’m just looking at an astrophysics paper, where “zero” is anything up to 3*10^39 ergs per second.
Metric prefixes aren’t there yet.
mollwollfumble said:
I’m just looking at an astrophysics paper, where “zero” is anything up to 3*10^39 ergs per second.
Metric prefixes aren’t there yet.
Ergs?
WTF would an astrophysicist use ergs?