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Anyone know their SI prefixes?

Chaotic42

Lifer
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.
 
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
 
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