Scientists have just approved new prefixes to describe outrageously large and small amounts of data. Meet the ronnabyte and quettabyte.

New unit measurement prefixes are added to the metric system The mass of the Earth can now be measured as 6 ronnagrams rather than 6,000 yottagrams. An electron's mass can now be said to be about ...

The international standards community has added two new prefixes for even bigger numbers than exa and zetta — meet ronna and quetta.

Scientists have approved the introduction of four new prefixes that can be applied to units of measurement in the metric system.

Scientists gathered in France voted for new metric prefixes to express the world’s largest and smallest measurements. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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You may have learned how to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius (and vice versa) during your elementary school math class, but there’s a good chance you don’t remember how to do that today.