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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:
- 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
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- 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
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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.
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But did they mean Quettabytes or Quebibytes? Because the difference is only around 250 000 times the size of the Internet.
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Or, in other words, around 244 kibiInternets.
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Bah, that's just a rounding error!
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I'm going to start giving my height in quectometres
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Googol 10^100.
(Not sure if that's official prefix.)
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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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