Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in | EverythingScience

Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in

A yottabyte is a one followed by 24 zeroes.

But even the mighty yotta is not enough to handle the world's voracious appetite for data, according to Richard Brown, the head of metrology at the UK's National Physical Laboratory.

"In terms of expressing data in yottabytes, which is the highest prefix currently, we're very close to the limit," Brown told AFP...

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