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Student Wants Science To Name 'Hella' Big Number
thodelu writes "Austin Sendek, a 20-year-old UC Davis student, is trying to get scientists from Boise to Beijing to use the term 'hella' to denote the unimaginably huge, seldom-cited quantity of 10 to the 27th power. From the article: 'It started as a joke, but Sendek's Facebook petition: to the Consultative Committee on Units, a subdivision of the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, has drawn more than 60,000 supporters. Its chances for formal adoption by the global weights-and-measures community are hella dim, but Google was so taken with Sendek's modest proposal that it incorporated "hella" in its online calculator.'"
like a page in facebook.
Damn it Cartman, stop saying Hella.
Jesus used to be my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him.
.. I lost my bid to the EU to adopt Metric F*ck Ton. =(
There's already a system.
See http://www.bipm.org/en/CGPM/db/19/4/ "The names zepto and zetta are derived from septo suggesting the number seven (the seventh power of 10^3) and the letter "z" is substituted for the letter "s" to avoid the duplicate use of the letter "s" as a symbol. The names yocto and yotta are derived from octo, suggesting the number eight (the eight power of 10^3); the letter "y" is added to avoid the use of the letter "o" as a symbol because it may be confused with the number zero."
Also, the order is Z, Y, so the next is X. Hence the next prefix is likely to be xona
http://www.mindspring.com/~jimvb/unitsystem.htm
A guy walks into a store. "I'd like a 1 Hellahertz computer"
Clerk promptly smacks him with a laptop.
"Thanks!"
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.