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A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers

More or Less: Behind the Stats

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What's Wrong With the Hella Bit and the Bronto Bit?

I'm a member of an international committee that curates and looks to improve the international system of units. So essentially, what's wrong with using Bronto as a prefix and hella as a prefix is they start with letters that would become the symbol for those prefixes. What we really need are prefixes that start with letters not in use for other prefixes or units. I was able to take this issue to them, show them it was an issue where we needed to take some action," he says.

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