You know kilo, centi, and milli, but how about ronto? Four new metric prefixes got the official stamp of approval last week at the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures held at Versailles, ...

The metric system's governing body has added some new terms to help describe massive amounts of data. The General Conference on Weights and Measures last week added the prefixes "ronna" and "quetta." ...

The Earth's mass can now be expressed as six ronnagrams after scientists voted to add new metric prefixes - Copyright PIB/AFP - The Earth's mass can now be expressed ...

As ever more digital data is created and stored, the world needs more unit measurements to keep up with the ever-expanding numbers. To do so, the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures on ...

Say hello to ronnagrams and quettametres: International scientists gathered in France have voted to approve new metric prefixes to express the world's largest and smallest measurements, prompted by an ...

IEEE 1541-2002 (adopted in 2005 and reaffirmed in 2008) defines that standard metric prefixes should not be used when referring to base 2 numbers, typical in computing. Metric uses base ten for ...

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, prompted ...

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, prompted by an ...

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, prompted ...

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, prompted ...