Post APjZfPUbvD5PN04od6 by duaneinva@twit.social
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(DIR) Post #APjWzvVaIXYKatcihc by twitnews@twit.social
2022-11-18T16:17:01Z
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Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in - https://phys.org/news/2022-11-earth-ronnagrams-metric-prefixes-voted.htmlSay hello to ronnagrams and quettameters: International scientists gathered in France voted on Friday for new metric prefixes to express the world's largest and smallest measurements, prompted by an ever-growing amount of data.It marks the first time in more than three decades that new prefixes have been added to the International System of Units (SI), the agreed global standard for the metric system.
(DIR) Post #APjXXDhffdc6a59W64 by brousselaine@mograph.social
2022-11-18T16:22:58Z
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@twitnews I'm ronna stoked about this
(DIR) Post #APjZfPUbvD5PN04od6 by duaneinva@twit.social
2022-11-18T16:46:27Z
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@twitnews I want a quettabyte NAS...
(DIR) Post #APjaFqpHm2smZI7iz2 by TFrankieB@twit.social
2022-11-18T16:53:29Z
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@twitnews If I understand things correctly, I am about 1.829 × 10²⁷ ronnometers tall. (Using "o" for the small side of the prefixes)
(DIR) Post #APjgI5uBHUcBdfrlUu by sonyfony@twit.social
2022-11-18T17:58:39Z
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@twitnews What on earth next 🤪
(DIR) Post #APjn3tAkWXejm2n0HA by wboyd360@fosstodon.org
2022-11-18T19:16:15Z
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@twitnews I know International scientists were going to vote on whether to keep or discard the "leap second." Can anyone tell me what happened with the leap second?
(DIR) Post #APkJETI0IGRZDZGxRw by ornerychemist@twit.social
2022-11-19T01:17:31Z
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@twitnews Still waiting for every-third-prime mixed-radix prefixes that would fit oh-so-nicely into the Imperial/Customary system. Get on it, NIST.