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Dec 12, 2022

New prefixes for extremely huge and small numbers announced

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Prefixes that stand for 27th and 30th powers of 10 were required due to the frequent creation of data.

At the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) in November, measurement experts and government representatives from all over the world voted to add new prefixes to the International System of Units (SI), announced the United Kingdom’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL).

So, as an extension of the metric system, the International System of Units (SI), a global decimal system of weights and measurements, was suggested by the United Kingdom’s National Physical Laboratory.


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Scientists have been searching for new prefixes to represent their infinitesimally small and inconceivably vast results as the study of size continues to expand toward the extremes, both in terms of the greatest numbers and the tiniest numbers.

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