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.
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).
Cookie Clicker doesn't use SI prefixes. It just uses numbers (eg million, billion, octodecillion, etc...), which already extend into basically infinity I believe.
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.
"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!"
46 Comments
mogoh@lemmy.ml · 112 pts · 1y
2022 ...
https://www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2022/resolution-3
Interesting never the less.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 31 pts · 1y
I do like to sleep in
fhqwgads@possumpat.io · 90 pts · 1y
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
In case you wondered where they came in the list like I immediately did:
Classy@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 1y
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.
fhqwgads@possumpat.io · 43 pts · 1y
But did they mean Quettabytes or Quebibytes? Because the difference is only around 250 000 times the size of the Internet.
bitcrafter@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1y
Or, in other words, around 244 kibiInternets.
Classy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
Bah, that's just a rounding error!
Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
I'm going to start giving my height in quectometres
someguy3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Googol 10^100.
(Not sure if that's official prefix.)
fhqwgads@possumpat.io · 37 pts · 1y
As far as I remember it isn't, it's just a named specific large number, like Avogadro's number or Graham's number.
ch00f@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 1y
Damn, I was really holding out for Hella for 10^27
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 1y
If 10^27^ would be Hella, would 10^-27^ then be Hello? 🙃
holycrap@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y
Alas, the prefix H was already in use according to the page you linked. Disappointing.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
I don't think it's used as a prefix but as a unit symbol. Point still stands though, unfortunately.
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
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).
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
Maybe there can be an exception when referring to Californium
imgcat@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 1y
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works · 44 pts · 1y
Fun fact: they made these because Cookie Clicker needed them
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev · 25 pts · 1y
Cookie Clicker doesn't use SI prefixes. It just uses numbers (eg million, billion, octodecillion, etc...), which already extend into basically infinity I believe.
Sunshine@lemmy.ca · 38 pts · 1y
Glory to the metric system 🫡🇫🇷
themoken@startrek.website · 18 pts · 1y
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.
BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz · 28 pts · 1y
Great, now I can talk about lightyears using Fermi length as unit
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
I'm switching my digital calipers to quetta-planck lengths.
rwdf@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y
Actually, it's not ronnabyte, it's ribibyte ...
YodaDaCoda@aussie.zone · 29 pts · 1y
Comment105@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y
You gotta lick a frog or two to understand kibimibi.
ulterno@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y
RiB
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O818btW2PYY
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 pts · 1y
Ronna and ronto: disgusting
Quetta and quecto: pleasing
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y
Now we just need the cunni - 10⁶⁹
Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
nice
PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 1y
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
...necktie? Nickel?
dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 1y
You can combine these to have perfectly valid ways of saying 1.
I'll have ronnaronto cheeseburger.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Miniature_giant_space_hamster
flango@lemmy.eco.br · 14 pts · 1y
1/R = r
lovely
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Ohhh, síiii
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
10^32... Chilito
Yes! Yes baby yes!
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
^smol^
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 1y
Not to be confused with
SWOL
ulterno@programming.dev · 0 pts · 1y
'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
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
"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!"
thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1y
I'm hella disappointed
mogoh@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
Lets define here and now Hella (H) as 10^666. It's not SI official, but not "false".
iii@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 1y
Yes 2025 will be great year.
GreatRam@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
KEKto
portuga@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Fun fact: in metric you don’t get as much shrinkage
bababu@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
... b*tch!
Siegfried@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y