http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/07/07/1221223/Student-Wants-Science-To-Name-Hella-Big-Number


http://Austin Sendek, a 20-year-old UC Davis student, is trying to get scientists from Boise to Beijing to use the term hella to denote the unimaginably huge, seldom-cited quantity of 10 to the 27th power.

7/7/2010 2:45:27 PM

I wish a bus would come crashing through that window.

7/7/2010 2:47:00 PM

haha that's great

7/7/2010 2:47:25 PM

1 hellabyte hard disk

FUCK YEAH

7/7/2010 2:49:17 PM

guy looks older than my grandfather, and yet, he's 20

7/7/2010 2:49:32 PM

7/7/2010 2:49:57 PM

7/7/2010 2:50:37 PM

Quote :

"the sun weighs 2.2 hellatons and gives 0.3 hellawatts of power"

7/7/2010 2:50:52 PM

google has been on board for a while.

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=1000+gigabytes+in+hellabytes&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=Ctp1roMw0TIvTJYLqzATojaX_CwAAAKoEBU_QnUpc&fp=36ec6be010d257f

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"1000 gigabytes = 8.67361738 × 10-16 hellabytes"

7/7/2010 2:52:06 PM

Too bad Gwen Stefani beat him to the punch by 9 years

7/7/2010 2:54:03 PM

hellaback girl

7/7/2010 2:55:02 PM

Not quite

7/7/2010 2:55:38 PM

7/7/2010 2:56:02 PM

HELLA HELLA HELLA hella hella HElla heLLa

7/7/2010 2:56:21 PM

ahahahahahahahahahahaha dweedle

7/7/2010 2:57:12 PM

dweedle wins

7/7/2010 2:57:52 PM

Seriously, how does that guy look 87 years old?

7/7/2010 2:57:56 PM

He has a jerk off face

Like even if he was a cool guy, you'd still want to punch him

7/7/2010 3:00:12 PM

Dweedle won the FUCK out of this thread

7/7/2010 3:00:22 PM

7/7/2010 3:10:26 PM

i dont get dweedle reference someone essplain

[Edited on July 7, 2010 at 3:22 PM. Reason : i mean it's pretty funny on it's own but you gotta let me knoowwwww]

7/7/2010 3:21:13 PM

What a douchebag.

7/7/2010 3:22:41 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YyvW1Kk7Q&feature=related for one

7/7/2010 3:22:58 PM

Quote :

"I wish a bus would come crashing through that window."

nerd jealousy

7/7/2010 3:24:25 PM

dweedle rides my coat tails like nobody's business

7/7/2010 3:25:00 PM

the fuck are you even talkin bout

7/7/2010 3:25:31 PM

7/7/2010 3:26:25 PM

exactly ... can't finish a thought

7/7/2010 3:27:00 PM

i wanna buy a 4HB hard drive

but in all seriousness I thout about it back when I first heard of it (a few months ago) and I realized that the corresponding prefix for 10^-27 (hello-?) would have the same abbreviation as "hecto" (10^2)
but maybe that confusion could be solved by using "ho" instead of "h" much as "deka" and "deci" are abbreviated "da" and "d"

also that guy looks more like a 20-year physics student than a 20-year-old one lol

P.S.: I e-mailed the author of that story telling him he got mixed up, that "zepta" and "zetto" and "negative numbers" needed to be, respectively, "zetta" and "zepto" and "negative exponents"; the last time I e-mailed any author about anything was when someone at the Financial Times claimed that Opera was open-source.

7/7/2010 3:43:04 PM

It's too late for me to edit my post, so I'll just say that to be consistent with the reasoning used by the CGPM of the SI back in 1991 when yotta (Y, 1000^8), zetta (Z, 1000^7), zepto (z, 1000^-7), and yocto (y, 1000^-8) were adopted (based on the Latin septem for 7 and Greek októ for 8), perhaps the CGPM can adopt nonna (N, 1000^8) and enno (e, 1000^-8), based on the Latin nowem and Greek ennea for nine; a strict continuation is infeasible because "n" is already taken for "nano" and "E" is already taken for "exa"

7/7/2010 5:17:24 PM

why can't you just say

Quote :

"haha, cool!"

like the rest of us

7/7/2010 5:28:32 PM

Quote :

"guy looks older than my grandfather, and yet, he's 20"

I was also going to say that this guy looks at least 50.

7/7/2010 5:30:47 PM

^^I put a lot of thought into my posts

anyway according to Wiktionary there are already unofficial prefixes going all the way to 10^36 and 10^-36...

U udeka   10^36 | 10^-36   udeko u
V vendeka 10^33 | 10^-33 vendeko v
W weka    10^30 | 10^-30    weko w
X xenna   10^27 | 10^-27   xenno x

7/7/2010 5:55:57 PM