In-reply-to » That's pretty cool. Earth now weighs six ronnagrams. New metric prefixes voted in France: https://phys.org/news/2022-11-earth-ronnagrams-metric-prefixes-voted.html

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I learned them also fairly late. But ordinary mortals ususally don’t come in contact with these very often. :-) I think I actually never used them myself. For a long time I thought zepto and yokto as well as zetta and yotta were reversed, because z follows the y in the alphabet. But in fact they come from the Latin and Italian sevens and eights.

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