{"id":150713,"date":"2022-11-21T17:23:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T23:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/its-official-scientists-confirm-a-new-expanded-scale-of-measurement"},"modified":"2022-11-21T17:23:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T23:23:22","slug":"its-official-scientists-confirm-a-new-expanded-scale-of-measurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/its-official-scientists-confirm-a-new-expanded-scale-of-measurement","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Official: Scientists Confirm a New Expanded Scale of Measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-official-scientists-confirm-a-new-expanded-scale-of-measurement3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Say hello to ronnagrams and quettameters: International scientists gathered in France voted on Friday for new metric prefixes to express the world\u2019s largest and smallest measurements, prompted by an ever-growing amount of data.<\/p>\n<p>It marks the first time in more than three decades that new prefixes have been added to the International System of Units (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nist.gov\/pml\/owm\/metric-si\/si-units#:~:text=The%20International%20System%20of%20Units, globe%20as%20World%20Metrology%20Day%20.\">SI<\/a>), the agreed global standard for the metric system.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the ranks of well-known prefixes like kilo and milli are ronna and quetta for the largest numbers \u2013 and ronto and quecto for the smallest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say hello to ronnagrams and quettameters: International scientists gathered in France voted on Friday for new metric prefixes to express the world\u2019s largest and smallest measurements, prompted by an ever-growing amount of data. It marks the first time in more than three decades that new prefixes have been added to the International System of Units [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}