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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

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

[–] Classy 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But did they mean Quettabytes or Quebibytes? Because the difference is only around 250 000 times the size of the Internet.

[–] Classy 4 points 1 week ago

Bah, that's just a rounding error!

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