Anyone know their SI prefixes?

[Chaotic42]

Man, metric is great.

Anyway, here are the 20 SI prefixes:

Factor Name Symbol
--
10^24 yotta Y
10^21 zetta Z
10^18 exa E
10^15 peta P
10^12 tera T
10^9 giga G
10^6 mega M
10^3 kilo k
10^2 hecto h
10^1 deka da
10^-1 deci d
10^-2 centi c
10^-3 milli m
10^-6 micro µ
10^-9 nano n
10^-12 pico p
10^-15 femto f
10^-18 atto a
10^-21 zepto z
10^-24 yocto y
--

So what will be beyond yotta? Is there anything? It will eventually come up, and the scientists know that. Just curious.

 

[Acanthus]

riiiiiiiiiiight.

 

[silverpig]

Considering they're going zetta, yotta... my guess would be 10^+-27 would begin with x, then w, v... etc.

 

[dighn]

metric >> *

 

[MacBaine]

10^24 yotta Y

Everybody say... YOTTA!!!!!

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: MacBaine

10^24 yotta Y

Everybody say... YOTTA!!!!!

Uh

Well, I'm glad you're so excited about your SI prefixes.

I think....

 

[PlatinumGold]

Am I the only moron that thought Sports Illustrated when they saw SI??

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Man, metric is great.

Anyway, here are the 20 SI prefixes:

Factor Name Symbol
--
10^24 yotta Y
10^21 zetta Z
10^18 exa E
10^15 peta P
10^12 tera T
10^9 giga G
10^6 mega M
10^3 kilo k
10^2 hecto h
10^1 deka da
10^-1 deci d
10^-2 centi c
10^-3 milli m
10^-6 micro µ
10^-9 nano n
10^-12 pico p
10^-15 femto f
10^-18 atto a
10^-21 zepto z
10^-24 yocto y
--

So what will be beyond yotta? Is there anything? It will eventually come up, and the scientists know that. Just curious.

I highly doubt they'd ever have to go beyond yotta.... However, if they figure out that quarks are made up of smaller particles.... then perhaps they'll need to go beyond the yocto, but I doubt it... they're already six orders of magnitude smaller than a quark (one millionth of a quark) with the prefixes

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
Am I the only moron that thought Sports Illustrated when they saw SI??

I thought about a Honda