themoken@startrek.website
on 12 Jan 23:57
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Bah, Imperial Units all the way. How else would I know how many stone I weigh, or how many King’s Pubes I am tall? I don’t want to convert from kilometers (whatever those are!) to gentlemans-strides or shilling miles to get where I’m going.
The campaign hasn’t made any progress since 2011 when Wolfram Alpha added support for it, a year after Google did. Google’s calculator still does support it, though, so you can write queries like like “1Zbit/s * 1 year in hellabytes” (3.9 hellabytes), or “mass of the earth in hellagrams” (5.9 hellagrams).
PunnyName@lemmy.world
on 12 Jan 21:00
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‘s’ and ‘S’ could be usable for these.
The only problem being smol -> s mol -> smol mole …
Because mol is another unit, making the usage of the full form ambiguous
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works
on 12 Jan 21:20
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Fun fact: they made these because Cookie Clicker needed them
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev
on 12 Jan 21:54
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Cookie Clicker doesn’t use SI prefixes. It just uses numbers (eg million, billion, octodecillion, etc…), which already extend into basically infinity I believe.
fhqwgads@possumpat.io
on 12 Jan 21:36
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As far as I remember it isn’t, it’s just a named specific large number, like Avogadro’s number or Graham’s number.
Classy@sh.itjust.works
on 13 Jan 02:24
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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.
a_little_red_rat@hexbear.net
on 13 Jan 09:35
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My favorite prefix will always be exa. Mostly because of a sci-fi book where one character called himself Exa and there were a few subtle puns with that name (like getting obliterated with a 10^18 W laser)
niktemadur@lemmy.world
on 13 Jan 11:35
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“What the hell are you kids doing down there in the basement, that you need these more specific units?” “Um… nothing, sir. Everything is quite all right, quite all right.”
“Hrumph! Very well then, I shall be in my study. And do try to keep the bloody racket down, for chrissakes!” “Yes sir, thank you sir, goodnight sir… Whew… that was a close one!”
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Yes 2025 will be great year.
KEKto
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2022 …
www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2022/resolution-3
Interesting never the less.
I do like to sleep in
Glory to the metric system 🫡🇫🇷
Bah, Imperial Units all the way. How else would I know how many stone I weigh, or how many King’s Pubes I am tall? I don’t want to convert from kilometers (whatever those are!) to gentlemans-strides or shilling miles to get where I’m going.
Damn, I was really holding out for Hella for 10^27
Urgh. Batter not.
Alas, the prefix H was already in use according to the page you linked. Disappointing.
I don’t think it’s used as a prefix but as a unit symbol. Point still stands though, unfortunately.
Maybe there can be an exception when referring to Californium
If 10^27^ would be Hella, would 10^-27^ then be Hello? 🙃
The campaign hasn’t made any progress since 2011 when Wolfram Alpha added support for it, a year after Google did. Google’s calculator still does support it, though, so you can write queries like like “1Zbit/s * 1 year in hellabytes” (3.9 hellabytes), or “mass of the earth in hellagrams” (5.9 hellagrams).
^smol^
Not to be confused with
SWOL
‘s’ and ‘S’ could be usable for these.
The only problem being smol -> s mol -> smol mole …
Because mol is another unit, making the usage of the full form ambiguous
Fun fact: they made these because Cookie Clicker needed them
Cookie Clicker doesn’t use SI prefixes. It just uses numbers (eg million, billion, octodecillion, etc…), which already extend into basically infinity I believe.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
In case you wondered where they came in the list like I immediately did:
Googol 10^100.
(Not sure if that’s official prefix.)
As far as I remember it isn’t, it’s just a named specific large number, like Avogadro’s number or Graham’s number.
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.
But did they mean Quettabytes or Quebibytes? Because the difference is only around 250 000 times the size of the Internet.
Bah, that’s just a rounding error!
Or, in other words, around 244 kibiInternets.
I’m going to start giving my height in quectometres
I’m hella disappointed
Lets define here and now Hella (H) as 10^666. It’s not SI official, but not “false”.
Ronna and ronto: disgusting
Quetta and quecto: pleasing
Whoa, that’s such big news, i just shifted a rontometer in my seat.
Imagine confusing ronto and ronna and accidentally shifting a ronnameter instead :P
Now we just need the cunni - 10⁶⁹
nice
1/R = r
lovely
Actually, it’s not ronnabyte, it’s ribibyte …
<img alt="🐸" src="https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/5862ac20-04b5-496a-babb-b18fe9a5c793.webp">
You gotta lick a frog or two to understand kibimibi.
RiB
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O818btW2PYY
Ohhh, síiii
10^32… Chilito
Yes! Yes baby yes!
Fun fact: in metric you don’t get as much shrinkage
Great, now I can talk about lightyears using Fermi length as unit
I’m switching my digital calipers to quetta-planck lengths.
Klaatu, verata, nikto
…necktie? Nickel?
My favorite prefix will always be exa. Mostly because of a sci-fi book where one character called himself Exa and there were a few subtle puns with that name (like getting obliterated with a 10^18 W laser)
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“What the hell are you kids doing down there in the basement, that you need these more specific units?”
“Um… nothing, sir. Everything is quite all right, quite all right.”
“Hrumph! Very well then, I shall be in my study. And do try to keep the bloody racket down, for chrissakes!”
“Yes sir, thank you sir, goodnight sir… Whew… that was a close one!”
You can combine these to have perfectly valid ways of saying 1.
I’ll have ronnaronto cheeseburger.
…fandom.com/…/Miniature_giant_space_hamster
… b*tch!