From cowan  Sat Mar  6 22:59:55 2010
Subject: PROPOSED NEW GISMU (BASELINE CHANGE): new metric prefixes
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From: cowan
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 92 12:17:28 EDT
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In 1990, the 19th General Conference on Weights and Measures adopted four
new metric prefixes, extending the range past the current 1E18 and 1E-18 to
two more thousands in each direction.  The new prefixes are:

	zetta-		1E21
	yotta-		1E24
	zepto-		1E-21
	yocto-		1E-24

I therefore propose corresponding gismu:

	zetra		1E21
	xotra		1E24
	zepto		1E-21
	xocto		1E-24

These words fit into extremely sparse regions of the gismu space: the only
other "ze-" gismu are zekri and zenba, and the only other "xo-" gismu is
xotli.  I doubt there is a killing need for rafsi for these, although if any
are not usable for anything else they could be assigned.

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