Nicolas Ward · @ultranurd
234 followers · 1470 posts · Server mastodon.socialEverybody wake up, new SI unit prefixes just dropped!
Welcome ronna (R, 10²⁷, octillion) and quetta (Q, 10³⁰, nonillion) and their tiny cousins ronto (r, 10⁻²⁷, octillionth) and quecto (q, 10⁻³⁰, nonillionth).
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/19/1137985619/metric-system-measurement-prefix
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2009 followers · 239313 posts · Server schleuss.onlineIt’s Official: The Leap Second Will Be Retired (a Decade from Now) - On Friday, an international vote was taken to ditch the leap second, a technical fudge th... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/science/time-leap-second-bipm.html #nationalinstituteofstandardsandtechnology #internationalbureauofweightsandmeasures #internationaltelecommunicationunion #telephonesandtelecommunications #globalpositioningsystem #weightsandmeasures #vaticanobservatory #spaceandastronomy #your-feed-science
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Is Time Running Out for the Leap Second? - To the world’s timekeepers, the leap second is a kludge, a bane, a pain in the little han... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/science/time-leap-second.html #nationalinstituteofstandardsandtechnology #internationalbureauofweightsandmeasures #telephonesandtelecommunications #globalpositioningsystem #weightsandmeasures #daylightsavingtime #your-feed-science #watchesandclocks #navigation #leapyear #earth #time
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