As ever more digital data is created and stored, the world needs more unit measurements to keep up with the ever-expanding numbers. To do so, the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures on ...

Numbers may be infinite, but our names for them aren't. That's why the metric system just got an update. Several new prefixes have been introduced to describe incredibly large and incredibly small ...

The metric system's governing body has added some new terms to help describe massive amounts of data. The General Conference on Weights and Measures last week added the prefixes "ronna" and "quetta." ...