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Old 08-09-2005, 21:28   #31
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Re: tons and tonnes

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Originally Posted by Theodoric
And I suppose that the latest metric prefixes, zepto and yocto, could be considered amusing. Somehow, I can't really take a yoctogramme very seriously.
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The prefix yocto- is used to multiply the coefficient 10^-24 to the value of a physical quantity, so 1 yoctogram equals 1 * 10^-24 grams.
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