New unit measurement prefixes are added to the metric system The mass of the Earth can now be measured as 6 ronnagrams rather than 6,000 yottagrams. An electron's mass can now be said to be about ...

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." ...

Related: Meet the zeptosecond, the shortest unit of time ever measured This is the first time that new prefixes have been added to the metric system since the addition of zetta (10˄21), zepto (10 ...

The metric system of measurement was originally established in France in 1790, after which it swiftly swept all of Europe in a multinational effort to standardize measurement across cultures.

To measure the mood, Marketplace traveled to the English Midlands city of Shrewsbury, home to one of the U.K.’s best-known metric skeptics. Seventy-four-year-old Tony Bennett is a self-confessed ...

The United States legalized the use of the Metric System in 1866, and while we’re using the English system of measurement on a day-to-day basis, it’s pretty hard to find a product on our ...

A harmonized measurement system is one of humanity’s greatest achievements and for any government to promote a return to the old ways is foolishness beyond measure. In the words of the French ...

While these three countries continue to use the imperial system, both Liberia and Myanmar are gradually introducing metric units, which are already widely used in some contexts. In the United ...

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) examined the Constellation Program’s draft request to reverse its 2-year-old decision to implement the metric system (also known as the International System ...

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