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[โ€“] ch00f@lemmy.world 69 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Damn, I was really holding out for Hella for 10^27

[โ€“] Ephera@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 days ago

If 10^27^ would be Hella, would 10^-27^ then be Hello? ๐Ÿ™ƒ

[โ€“] holycrap@lemm.ee 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Alas, the prefix H was already in use according to the page you linked. Disappointing.

[โ€“] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago

I don't think it's used as a prefix but as a unit symbol. Point still stands though, unfortunately.

[โ€“] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

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).

Maybe there can be an exception when referring to Californium

[โ€“] imgcat@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 days ago

Urgh. Batter not.