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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
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.
But did they mean Quettabytes or Quebibytes? Because the difference is only around 250 000 times the size of the Internet.
I’m going to start giving my height in quectometres
Googol 10^100.
(Not sure if that’s official prefix.)
As far as I remember it isn’t, it’s just a named specific large number, like Avogadro’s number or Graham’s number.
If 10^27^ would be Hella, would 10^-27^ then be Hello? 🙃
Alas, the prefix H was already in use according to the page you linked. Disappointing.
I don’t think it’s used as a prefix but as a unit symbol. Point still stands though, unfortunately.
The campaign hasn’t made any progress since 2011 when Wolfram Alpha added support for it, a year after Google did. Google’s calculator still does support it, though, so you can write queries like like “1Zbit/s * 1 year in hellabytes” (3.9 hellabytes), or “mass of the earth in hellagrams” (5.9 hellagrams).
Maybe there can be an exception when referring to Californium
Fun fact: they made these because Cookie Clicker needed them
Cookie Clicker doesn’t use SI prefixes. It just uses numbers (eg million, billion, octodecillion, etc…), which already extend into basically infinity I believe.
Glory to the metric system 🫡🇫🇷
Bah, Imperial Units all the way. How else would I know how many stone I weigh, or how many King’s Pubes I am tall? I don’t want to convert from kilometers (whatever those are!) to gentlemans-strides or shilling miles to get where I’m going.
Actually, it’s not ronna, it’s ribibyte …
You gotta lick a frog or two to understand kibimibi.
RiB
Great, now I can talk about lightyears using Fermi length as unit
I’m switching my digital calipers to quetta-planck lengths.
Ronna and ronto: disgusting
Quetta and quecto: pleasing
Now we just need the cunni - 10⁶⁹
nice
10^-30^ quesito
Ohhh, síiii
10^32… Chilito
Yes! Yes baby yes!
1/R = r
lovely
You can combine these to have perfectly valid ways of saying 1.
I’ll have ronnaronto cheeseburger.
Klaatu, verata, nikto
…necktie? Nickel?
^^smol
Not to be confused with
‘s’ and ‘S’ could be usable for these.
The only problem being smol -> s mol -> smol mole …
Because mol is another unit, making the usage of the full form ambiguous
“What the hell are you kids doing down there in the basement, that you need these more specific units?”
“Um… nothing, sir. Everything is quite all right, quite all right.”
“Hrumph! Very well then, I shall be in my study. And do try to keep the bloody racket down, for chrissakes!”
“Yes sir, thank you sir, goodnight sir… Whew… that was a close one!”
I’m hella disappointed
Lets define here and now Hella (H) as 10^666. It’s not SI official, but not “false”.
KEKto
Yes 2025 will be great year.
Whoa, that’s such big news, i just shifted a rontometer in my seat.
Imagine confusing ronto and ronaa and accidentally shifting a ronaameter instead :P
My favorite prefix will always be exa. Mostly because of a sci-fi book where one character called himself Exa and there a few subtle puns with that name (like getting obliterated with a 10^18 W laser)
Fun fact: in metric you don’t get as much shrinkage
… b*tch!
mogoh@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
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2022 …
www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2022/resolution-3
Interesting never the less.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I do like to sleep in