Teddington, UK -- Measurement scientists and government representatives from around the world at the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) in Versailles, France, on Friday 18 November 2022 ...

Say hello to the first new SI prefixes since 1991. At the humongous end of the scale, ronna and quecca now denote 10 27 and 10 30, respectively. Apparently, the mass of the Earth is six ronnagrams, or ...

Earth now weighs 6 Ronnagrams as new prefixes are added to the International Systems of Measurement. Paris: International scientists gathered in France on Friday to add new metric prefixes to express ...

Now that the exascale (a billion billion, or 10 18, calculations/second) computing barrier has been surmounted, and with discussion of zettascale-class supercomputers already in the wind, the General ...

Scientists are lobbying for a new word to help them describe numbers larger than 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, amid concerns that the current system of units is insufficient. By Matthew Moore ...