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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:
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.
But did they mean Quettabytes or Quebibytes? Because the difference is only around 250 000 times the size of the Internet.
Or, in other words, around 244 kibiInternets.
Bah, that's just a rounding error!
I'm going to start giving my height in quectometres
Googol 10^100.
(Not sure if that's official prefix.)
As far as I remember it isn't, it's just a named specific large number, like Avogadro's number or Graham's number.
Damn, I was really holding out for Hella for 10^27
Alas, the prefix H was already in use according to the page you linked. Disappointing.
I don't think it's used as a prefix but as a unit symbol. Point still stands though, unfortunately.
Fun fact: they made these because Cookie Clicker needed them
Cookie Clicker doesn't use SI prefixes. It just uses numbers (eg million, billion, octodecillion, etc...), which already extend into basically infinity I believe.
Glory to the metric system 🫡🇫🇷
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.
Actually, it's not ronnabyte, it's ribibyte ...
You gotta lick a frog or two to understand kibimibi.
RiB
Great, now I can talk about lightyears using Fermi length as unit
I'm switching my digital calipers to quetta-planck lengths.
Ronna and ronto: disgusting
Quetta and quecto: pleasing
Now we just need the cunni - 10⁶⁹
nice
1/R = r
lovely
10^-30^ quesito
Ohhh, síiii
10^32... Chilito
Yes! Yes baby yes!
You can combine these to have perfectly valid ways of saying 1.
I'll have ronnaronto cheeseburger.
^smol^
Not to be confused with
'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
I'm hella disappointed
"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!"
Yes 2025 will be great year.
Whoa, that's such big news, i just shifted a rontometer in my seat.
Imagine confusing ronto and ronna and accidentally shifting a ronnameter instead :P
KEKto
Fun fact: in metric you don’t get as much shrinkage
... b*tch!