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 ...
For the first time in more than 30 years, new terms have been officially added to the International System of Units (SI). The four new prefixes – ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto – describe very large ...
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 ...
Meet the metric system’s newest prefixes: ronna-, quetta-, ronto- and quecto-. Science News spoke with Richard Brown, head of metrology at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, England, ...
Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? In data science, informal prefixes were already starting to become common, leading to ...
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