Say hello to ronnagrams and quettameters: International scientists gathered in France voted on Friday for new metric prefixes to express the world's largest and smallest measurements, prompted by an ever-growing amount of data.
It marks the first time in more than three decades that new prefixes have been added to the International System of Units , the agreed global standard for the metric system.
The change was voted on by scientists and government representatives from across the world attending theThe UK's, which led the push for the new prefixes, confirmed that the resolution had passed in a statement. Since the SI was established in 1960, scientific need has led to a growing number of prefixes. The last time was in 1991, when chemists wanting to express vast molecular quantities spurred the addition of zetta and yotta.But even the mighty yotta is not enough to handle the world's voracious appetite for data, according to"In terms of expressing data in yottabytes, which is the highest prefix currently, we're very close to the limit," Brown told AFP.
"Those were terms that were unofficially in circulation, so it was clear that the SI had to do something," he said.
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