Earth weighs in at six ronnagrams as new prefixes picked for big and small
by Ian Sample Science editor from Science | The Guardian on (#65ZWY)
Ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto added to International System of Units in first such change for more than 30 years
Experts have voted for an expansion of the universe - or at least the official terminology that can be drawn upon to describe the vanishingly small and the preposterously large.
In a vote at the General Conference on Weights and Measures in Versailles on Friday, the International System of Units (SI) embraced four new prefixes with immediate effect, marking the first such changes in more than 30 years.
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