Meet the metric system’s newest prefixes: ronna-, quetta-, ronto- and quecto-. Science News spoke with Richard Brown, head of metrology at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, England ...

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 ...

Four new prefixes extend the way we can uniformly quantify—and name—the extreme ranges of numbers.

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

As science has expanded to the huge and the tiny, the need for new metric-system prefixes has grown accordingly. These have made their way into common parlance mostly through computing.

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

The new prefixes ronna and quetta refer to the largest numbers, while ronto and quecto apply to the smallest. Ronna is a 1 followed by 27 zeroes, and quetta is a 1 followed by 30 zeroes.

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

PARIS: Say hello to ronnagrams and quettametres: International scientists gathered in France voted on Friday for new metric prefixes to express the world's largest and smallest measurements, ...

Why are there differing preferences for suffixes and prefixes across languages? Date: August 28, 2020 Source: Association for Psychological Science Summary: While speakers of English and other ...

In the world of science, SI prefixes are sacrosanct. Well, unless you happen to be a computing scientist, in which case the choice of prefix—mega vs mebi—can be a little controversial. It ...

New prefixes referring to massive and tiny numbers have been voted for by scientists and government representatives at Versailles Palace, west of Paris, France.