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 ...

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 ...

We may still be a ways from worrying how many yottabytes your computer can hold, but the international standards community has added two new prefixes for even bigger numbers than that — ronna for 10 ...

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 ...

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 AFP Say hello to ronnagrams and quettametres: International scientists gathered in France ...

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 ...