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[-] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 92 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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
[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 years 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.

[-] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 44 points 2 years ago

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

[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

Or, in other words, around 244 kibiInternets.

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Bah, that's just a rounding error!

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

I'm going to start giving my height in quectometres

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Googol 10^100.

(Not sure if that's official prefix.)

[-] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 38 points 2 years 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.

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