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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • mogoh@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

    2022 …

    www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2022/resolution-3

    Interesting never the less.

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    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I do like to sleep in

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  • fhqwgads@possumpat.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • fhqwgads@possumpat.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But did they mean Quettabytes or Quebibytes? Because the difference is only around 250 000 times the size of the Internet.

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    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m going to start giving my height in quectometres

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    • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Googol 10^100.

      (Not sure if that’s official prefix.)

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      • fhqwgads@possumpat.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Damn, I was really holding out for Hella for 10^27

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    • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If 10^27^ would be Hella, would 10^-27^ then be Hello? 🙃

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    • holycrap@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Alas, the prefix H was already in use according to the page you linked. Disappointing.

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      • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t think it’s used as a prefix but as a unit symbol. Point still stands though, unfortunately.

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    • cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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).

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    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe there can be an exception when referring to Californium

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fun fact: they made these because Cookie Clicker needed them

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    • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cookie Clicker doesn’t use SI prefixes. It just uses numbers (eg million, billion, octodecillion, etc…), which already extend into basically infinity I believe.

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  • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Glory to the metric system 🫡🇫🇷

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    • themoken@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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  • rwdf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually, it’s not ronna, it’s ribibyte …

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    • YodaDaCoda@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🐸

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      • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You gotta lick a frog or two to understand kibimibi.

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    • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      RiB

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=O818btW2PYY

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  • BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Great, now I can talk about lightyears using Fermi length as unit

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    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m switching my digital calipers to quetta-planck lengths.

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  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ronna and ronto: disgusting

    Quetta and quecto: pleasing

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  • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now we just need the cunni - 10⁶⁹

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    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      nice

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    10^-30^ quesito

    Ohhh, síiii

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    • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      10^32… Chilito

      Yes! Yes baby yes!

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  • flango@lemmy.eco.br ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    1/R = r

    lovely

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  • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can combine these to have perfectly valid ways of saying 1.

    I’ll have ronnaronto cheeseburger.

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    • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      …fandom.com/…/Miniature_giant_space_hamster

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  • PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Klaatu, verata, nikto

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    • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      …necktie? Nickel?

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ^^smol

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    • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not to be confused with

      SWOL

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      • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        ‘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

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  • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “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!”

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  • thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m hella disappointed

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    • mogoh@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lets define here and now Hella (H) as 10^666. It’s not SI official, but not “false”.

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  • GreatRam@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    KEKto

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  • iii@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes 2025 will be great year.

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  • Ghost33313@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Whoa, that’s such big news, i just shifted a rontometer in my seat.

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    • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Imagine confusing ronto and ronaa and accidentally shifting a ronaameter instead :P

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  • a_little_red_rat@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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)

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  • portuga@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fun fact: in metric you don’t get as much shrinkage

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  • bababu@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    … b*tch!

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