
The Skeptics Guide #908 - Dec 3 2022
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
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What's a Hellabyte?
Richard Brown, a metrologist in the UK National Physical Laboratory, came up with Rana and Quetta. They are unofficial terms that have not been adopted into the SI. The symbols H and B are already used in the metric system for other units or prefixes. And they want to generally make them sound vaguely like Greek or Latin numbers.
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