I’m going to start giving my height in quectometres
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fhqwgads@possumpat.io 1 week ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
In case you wondered where they came in the list like I immediately did:
quetta Q 1030 ronna R 1027 yotta Y 1024 zetta Z 1021 exa E 1018 peta P 1015 tera T 1012 giga G 109 mega M 106 kilo k 103 hecto h 102 deca da 101 —— deci d 10−1 centi c 10−2 milli m 10−3 micro μ 10−6 nano n 10−9 pico p 10−12 femto f 10−15 atto a 10−18 zepto z 10−21 yocto y 10−24 ronto r 10−27 quecto q 10−30
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Googol 10^100.
(Not sure if that’s official prefix.)
fhqwgads@possumpat.io 1 week ago
As far as I remember it isn’t, it’s just a named specific large number, like Avogadro’s number or Graham’s number.
Classy@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I noticed recently that a Linux command mentioned in its manpage that it supported Q as a bit prefix and I had to stop to ponder the utility in encoding a million-billion Terabytes.
fhqwgads@possumpat.io 1 week ago
But did they mean Quettabytes or Quebibytes? Because the difference is only around 250 000 times the size of the Internet.
bitcrafter@programming.dev 1 week ago
Or, in other words, around 244 kibiInternets.
Classy@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Bah, that’s just a rounding error!