Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in
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Re: Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in
#2I hope there is no mother called Ronna somewhere. Terrible joke.
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#3Damn, I was really hoping bronto or hella would get some traction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_prefix#Unofficial_prefixe...
Re: Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in
#4Damn, I was really hoping bronto or hella would get some traction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_prefix#Unofficial_prefixe... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella#SI_prefix
> However metric prefixes need to be shortened to just their first letter—and B and H were already taken, ruling out bronto and hella.
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#5Damn, I was really hoping bronto or hella would get some traction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_prefix#Unofficial_prefixe... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella#SI_prefix
> However metric prefixes need to be shortened to just their first letter—and B and H were already taken, ruling out bronto and hella.
Cyrillic small be (б) and Greek small chi (χ) could have been used instead.
Re: Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in
#6Damn, I was really hoping bronto or hella would get some traction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_prefix#Unofficial_prefixe... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella#SI_prefix
Yeah hella would have been great!
Re: Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in
#7Would be nice if it linked to the actual document. See Resolution 3 in the resolutions document [0].
[0]: https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/64811223/Resolutions-20...
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#8I hope there is no mother called Ronna somewhere. Terrible joke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronna_McDaniel
She has 2 children according to that article.
Re: Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in
#9I guess that gives us new binary prefixes as well, we can now express data sizes in robibit, quebibit, robibyte and quebibyte!
Re: Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in
#10Dandy. A memento of the corona virus