Students at the university of california davis started a petition to propose a new prefix. And that is hella, for ten to the 20 seventh power. If the hella prefix is adopted officially, it would be the first of the prefixes for huge numbers not to come from classical languages like latin and greek.
When the Taliban resumed power, there were hopes that women might not be as excluded, repressed and abused as they were previously. Those hopes
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