Talk:Yotta-

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Any stories about an officially confirmed SI prefix after yotta?? 66.245.112.204 00:45, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] On the model of a recent edit to Zetta...

...a recent edit of zetta was made adding a bogus SI prefix that didn't officially exist. Any edit that can be made to yotta on the model of this?? Georgia guy 00:15, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

That would be Otta, but since it already has its own article...I did not follow the vote for deletion around Hepa, but since its deletion removed it from Category:Bogus SI prefixes, it had to be footnoted with Zetta and added to the category page itself.

Urhixidur 02:31, 2005 Feb 25 (UTC)

A couple of layers above should be "Yotta Yotta Yotta", otherwise known as "Seinfeldbyte". Wahkeenah 08:39, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 23rd CGPM meeting

One site reveals that 2007 is the year of the 23rd CGPM meeting, which I believe is when the next SI prefix (10^27) should be confirmed. Anyone who disagrees?? Georgia guy 14:50, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Which site? Please provide a link.

Now, besides the lack of pressing need for 10E±27 prefixes, SI is running out of letters. The name should be tied to "nine" somehow, because that's the pattern established by the other prefixes. The remaining letters are: (upper case) DIOQRUX, (lower case) begijoqrtuvwx. It has been said before that 'o' is unlikely because of the risk of confusion with zero. (Note that there are precedents for using a letter for both a unit and a prefix, e.g. tera and tesla) Urhixidur 18:03, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yottaatoms?

I don't think one can stick SI prefixes before just any word regardless of whether or not it's an SI unit. (Can one say that the world population currently stands at 6.6 gigapeople?) In any case, this sentence could be written for any substance, not just carbon-12 – if this sentence is of any value, it is to give information about the Avogadro constant, not about a particular isotope of carbon. Vilĉjo 10:47, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Sentence removed. Vilĉjo 21:43, 9 August 2007 (UTC)