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Very interesting #science news - the first SI prefixes since 1991 were announced today at the General Conference on Weights and Measures.
quetta = ronna = ronto = quecto =
For example the mass of an electron is just under one quectogram (1qg).
The resolution (in French) is available here https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/64811223/Resolutions-2022.pdf/281f3160-fc56-3e63-dbf7-77b76500990f
@filipw That's amazing! I honestly only knew til exa/atto. Does the document say the reason for adding further prefixes? I'm thinking because of the scale of computing power but maybe there are more?
@bojohn apparently it's driven primarily by data science but I can imagine it useful in other areas such as astro- or quantum physics were things are very large or very small. There is more context in today's article at Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03747-9
@filipw interesting, thanks for the reference!