Nicolas WardNov 20, 2022

Everybody wake up, new SI unit prefixes just dropped!

Welcome ronna (R, 10²⁷, octillion) and quetta (Q, 10³⁰, nonillion) and their tiny cousins ronto (r, 10⁻²⁷, octillionth) and quecto (q, 10⁻³⁰, nonillionth).

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/19/1137985619/metric-system-measurement-prefix

#science #InternationalBureauOfWeightsAndMeasures

The world generates so much data that new unit measurements were created to keep up

The mass of the Earth can now be measured as 6 ronnagrams rather than 6,000 yottagrams. An electron's mass can now be said to be about 1 rontogram rather than 0.001 yoctograms.

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