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  • a_little_red_rat [he/him, comrade/them]
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    My favorite prefix will always be exa. Mostly because of a sci-fi book where one character called himself Exa and there were a few subtle puns with that name (like getting obliterated with a 10^18 W laser)

  • GreatRam
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    10•6 months ago

    KEKto

  • @[email protected]
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    120•6 months ago

    2022 …

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

    Interesting never the less.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      34•6 months ago

      I do like to sleep in

  • Sunshine (she/her)
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    42•6 months ago

    Glory to the metric system 🫡🇫🇷

    • @[email protected]
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      19•6 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    69•6 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      10•6 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        10•6 months ago

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

    • Arthur Besse
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      5•6 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).

    • @[email protected]
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      deleted by creator

    • Ephera
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      17•6 months ago

      If 1027 would be Hella, would 10-27 then be Hello? 🙃

    • @[email protected]OP
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      3•6 months ago

      Maybe there can be an exception when referring to Californium

  • @[email protected]
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    smol

    • @[email protected]
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      15•6 months ago

      Not to be confused with

      SWOL

      • @[email protected]
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        ‘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

  • @[email protected]
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    45•6 months ago

    Fun fact: they made these because Cookie Clicker needed them

    • 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠
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      26•6 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

    In case you wondered where they came in the list like I immediately did:

    • quetta Q 10^30
    • ronna R 10^27
    • yotta Y 10^24
    • zetta Z 10^21
    • exa E 10^18
    • peta P 10^15
    • tera T 10^12
    • giga G 10^9
    • mega M 10^6
    • kilo k 10^3
    • hecto h 10^2
    • deca da 10^1
    • ——
    • 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^p−15
    • atto a 10^−18
    • zepto z 10^−21
    • yocto y 10^−24
    • ronto r 10^−27
    • quecto q 10^−30
    • @[email protected]
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      I’m going to start giving my height in quectometres

    • @[email protected]
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      27•6 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        44•6 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          4•6 months ago

          Bah, that’s just a rounding error!

        • @[email protected]
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          8•6 months ago

          Or, in other words, around 244 kibiInternets.

    • BarqsHasBite
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      4•6 months ago

      Googol 10^100.

      (Not sure if that’s official prefix.)

      • @[email protected]
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        38•6 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    12•6 months ago

    I’m hella disappointed

    • @[email protected]
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      4•6 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    26•6 months ago

    Ronna and ronto: disgusting

    Quetta and quecto: pleasing

  • Ghost (he/any)
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    Whoa, that’s such big news, i just shifted a rontometer in my seat.

    • @[email protected]
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      Imagine confusing ronto and ronna and accidentally shifting a ronnameter instead :P

  • @[email protected]
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    18•6 months ago

    1/R = r

    lovely

  • @[email protected]
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    23•6 months ago

    Now we just need the cunni - 10⁶⁹

    • @[email protected]
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      2•6 months ago

      nice

  • @[email protected]
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    Actually, it’s not ronnabyte, it’s ribibyte …

    • @[email protected]
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      31•6 months ago

      🐸

      • @[email protected]
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        11•6 months ago

        You gotta lick a frog or two to understand kibimibi.

    • @[email protected]
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      1•6 months ago

      RiB

    • @[email protected]
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      1•6 months ago

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O818btW2PYY

  • Lemminary
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    16•6 months ago

    10-30 quesito

    Ohhh, síiii

    • @[email protected]
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      4•6 months ago

      10^32… Chilito

      Yes! Yes baby yes!

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