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This is a bit confusting. From
https://www.lne.fr/en/news/general-conference-weights-and-measures-2022:

to express quantities of digital information using orders of magnitude in e=
xcess of 1024, has been adopted.

Thus, four new prefixes have been introduced:

    ronna pour 1027
    ronto pour 10-27
    quetta pour 1030
    quecto pour 10-30
End quote.

Abbreviations?
What does the reference to 1024 mean? Does it mean power of ten prefixes (n=
egative  powers)? The what relevance has 1024? If it's binary units, negati=
ve powers are nonsense.

From
https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html:

Because the SI prefixes strictly represent powers of 10, they should not be=
 used to represent powers of 2. Thus, one kilobit, or 1 kb a it, is 1000 bi=
t and not 210 bit =3D 1024 bit. To alleviate this ambiguity, prefixes for b=
inary multiples have been adopted by the International Electrotechnical Com=
mission (IEC) for use in information technology.
End quote.

You can find the binary prefixes in:
https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

There is not yet a word to be found about the above prefixes.