From mega to giga to tera to peta, the prefixes we use to describe piles of bytes are starting to run out. It seems like every year we end up having to change the go-to word meaning "lots of data." ...

As the system of prefixes can now encompass a 1 followed by 24 zeroes, most scientists will be happy to use 10 25 and the like for anything bigger. But not college students: a group at the ...

So 1 QB would be 1,000,000 yottabytes (YB) the previous top of the scale. On the other end of the scale, the previous tiny measure was the yocto. So a yW or yactowatt, would be 10 -24 watts.

The next time you want to quantify something as mind-bogglingly huge as the mass of Jupiter—NASA says it’s about 318 times the mass of Earth, which is itself about 5.97 x 10 24 kilograms—the ...

As you may have guessed, we also now have terms for 10-27 and 10-30: ronto and quecto.. While there are few things that can’t adequately be described in terms of the existing prefixes, it’s ...

Meet the metric system’s newest prefixes: ronna-, quetta-, ronto- and quecto-. Adopted November 18 at the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures in Versailles, France, ronna- and quetta ...