From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: ANN: Units of measurement for Ada v3.12 (New SI prefixes)
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 18:03:36 +0100 [thread overview]
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On 2022-11-30 16:44, AdaMagica wrote:
> 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 excess 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?
q, r, R, Q
> What does the reference to 1024 mean? Does it mean power of ten prefixes (negative powers)? The what relevance has 1024? If it's binary units, negative powers are nonsense.
Mistranslation from French? (:-))
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2022-11-26 22:11 ANN: Units of measurement for Ada v3.12 (New SI prefixes) Dmitry A. Kazakov
2022-11-30 15:44 ` AdaMagica
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