ALkatraz All American 11299 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
FroshKiller All American 51908 Posts user info edit post |
I wish a bus would come crashing through that window. 7/7/2010 2:47:00 PM |
sawahash All American 35321 Posts user info edit post |
haha that's great 7/7/2010 2:47:25 PM |
indy All American 3624 Posts user info edit post |
1 hellabyte hard disk
FUCK YEAH 7/7/2010 2:49:17 PM |
pilgrimshoes Suspended 63151 Posts user info edit post |
guy looks older than my grandfather, and yet, he's 20 7/7/2010 2:49:32 PM |
ThePeter TWW CHAMPION 37709 Posts user info edit post |
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dweedle All American 77386 Posts user info edit post |
7/7/2010 2:50:37 PM |
indy All American 3624 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "the sun weighs 2.2 hellatons and gives 0.3 hellawatts of power" |
7/7/2010 2:50:52 PM |
simonn best gottfriend 28968 Posts user info edit post |
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
Quote : | "1000 gigabytes = 8.67361738 × 10-16 hellabytes" |
7/7/2010 2:52:06 PM |
Slave Famous Become Wrath 34079 Posts user info edit post |
Too bad Gwen Stefani beat him to the punch by 9 years 7/7/2010 2:54:03 PM |
FroshKiller All American 51908 Posts user info edit post |
hellaback girl 7/7/2010 2:55:02 PM |
Slave Famous Become Wrath 34079 Posts user info edit post |
Not quite 7/7/2010 2:55:38 PM |
FroshKiller All American 51908 Posts user info edit post |
7/7/2010 2:56:02 PM |
dweedle All American 77386 Posts user info edit post |
HELLA HELLA HELLA hella hella HElla heLLa
7/7/2010 2:56:21 PM |
FroshKiller All American 51908 Posts user info edit post |
ahahahahahahahahahahaha dweedle 7/7/2010 2:57:12 PM |
indy All American 3624 Posts user info edit post |
dweedle wins 7/7/2010 2:57:52 PM |
Skwinkle burritotomyface 19447 Posts user info edit post |
Seriously, how does that guy look 87 years old? 7/7/2010 2:57:56 PM |
Slave Famous Become Wrath 34079 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
DeltaBeta All American 9417 Posts user info edit post |
Dweedle won the FUCK out of this thread 7/7/2010 3:00:22 PM |
dweedle All American 77386 Posts user info edit post |
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paerabol All American 17118 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
Mr. Joshua Swimfanfan 43948 Posts user info edit post |
What a douchebag. 7/7/2010 3:22:41 PM |
dweedle All American 77386 Posts user info edit post |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5YyvW1Kk7Q&feature=related for one 7/7/2010 3:22:58 PM |
McDanger All American 18835 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "I wish a bus would come crashing through that window." |
nerd jealousy7/7/2010 3:24:25 PM |
Slave Famous Become Wrath 34079 Posts user info edit post |
dweedle rides my coat tails like nobody's business 7/7/2010 3:25:00 PM |
dweedle All American 77386 Posts user info edit post |
the fuck are you even talkin bout 7/7/2010 3:25:31 PM |
Slave Famous Become Wrath 34079 Posts user info edit post |
7/7/2010 3:26:25 PM |
dweedle All American 77386 Posts user info edit post |
exactly ... can't finish a thought 7/7/2010 3:27:00 PM |
lewisje All American 9196 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
lewisje All American 9196 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
ThePeter TWW CHAMPION 37709 Posts user info edit post |
why can't you just say
like the rest of us7/7/2010 5:28:32 PM |
AndyMac All American 31922 Posts user info edit post |
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 |
lewisje All American 9196 Posts user info edit post |
^^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 They are based on the Greek ennéa, déka, éndeka, and dódeka for 9, 10, 11, and 12, respectively, along with an initial series moving backward through the English alphabet; this series cannot be continued further because "T" is already taken for "tera"7/7/2010 5:55:57 PM |