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, ...
As ever more digital data is created and stored, the world needs more unit measurements to keep up with the ever-expanding numbers. To do so, the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures on ...
The metric system's governing body has added some new terms to help describe massive amounts of data. The General Conference on Weights and Measures last week added the prefixes "ronna" and "quetta." ...
IEEE 1541-2002 (adopted in 2005 and reaffirmed in 2008) defines that standard metric prefixes should not be used when referring to base 2 numbers, typical in computing. Metric uses base ten for ...
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