World to become familiar with word ‘Quetta’ in future. Here’s how
Have you ever wondered how much data is currently stored on the Internet worldwide? And then what is the relationship between the city of Quetta in Pakistan and this data? This is both very surprising and a bit complicated.
Life was simple when man was not very advanced yet. Weight was measured in seers, mands, kilograms and tons, and distance was measured in furlongs, miles, meters and kilometers. But at the speed with which world is developing and the world is changing, the scales of measurement and weight set by scientific experts are also getting smaller.
These scales of weights and measures are determined by a world conference, in which many new additions to the existing world system of weights and measures are decided.
First addition during this century to universal systems of measurement units. The participants of this global conference believed that in view of the rapid scientific development and the incredible growth in the volume of data stored on the World Wide Web (www), which has been and will continue to increase in the coming years. Expansion of existing global systems of weights and measures has also become inevitable.
Dr. Richard Brown is associated with the UK’s National Physical Laboratory. “These four new standards of weights and measures have been developed and adopted with the help of similar precedents that we are already familiar with in the metric system,” he said. For example, centigram means hundredth of a gram and milligram means thousandth of a gram.
Data scientists were left helpless
According to Dr. Richard Brown, Head of Metrology at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory, “Over the past 30 years, the world’s data, or the data sphere as it’s commonly known, has been doubling day and quadrupling nightly.” Data scientists realized that they no longer had any words or standards that could describe such a level of data storage. Hence these new terms become mandatory and this process will continue in the future as well.”
As a result of this year’s World Conference on Weights and Measures and its decisions, the highest international authority in the field, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, decided to implement the four new terms immediately:
Quetta.
Ronna.
Ronto (ronto).
Quecto.
Rona Bada or Quetta
Now the question is, is crying bigger or Quetta? Answer:
One Quetta is equal to one thousand Ronna. That is, if there are twenty-seven 27 zeros after one in a very large number, it will be a cry:
1000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
Similarly, in a very large number, if there are thirty 30 zeros after the one, it will be one Quetta:
1000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
Now if we think of something smaller than bigger, the new terms that have come into force are ronto and quicto. If twenty-seven zeros are added after the zero decimal point in a very small number, it will be a ronto.
Similarly, a quicto will be a thousand times smaller than a ronto and if thirty more zeros are added after the zero decimal point in a number, then a quicto will be formed.
Quetta is the capital of Balochistan in Pakistan
The delegates of the World Conference of Versailles accepted the unit called Quetta as the new international standard among the suggestions of their British colleague Richard Brown.
But why did Dr. Brown choose the name of Quetta? He did this not by thinking but after long consideration. As the new universal unit of counting, Quetta has absolutely nothing to do with Quetta, the capital of Balochistan.
Nevertheless, it is certain that in the coming years almost every person in the world will be familiar with the same name of the Pakistani city of Quetta as a new global standard unit.
Terms for new prefixes
As the new global standard units, these new prefixes were required to begin with the English letters r (r) and q (q). Because these were the two letters of the English alphabet, which were not used until today.
It was also imperative to respect the tradition that these prefixes should sound, as far as possible, like the Greek sounds of their respective first letters.
Another requirement was that the prefix used for large numbers should end in the English letter a (a) and the prefix used for small numbers should end in the English letter o (o). Dr. Brown thus set the stage for the invention of the terms ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto
A few surprising examples
. The mass of an electron is approximately one rontogram.
. One byte of data stored in a mobile phone is a kilogram.
. The mass of Jupiter, the fifth and overall largest planet in the Earth’s solar system, is only two kilograms.
. Similarly, the diameter of the entire observable universe is just one ronimeter.
In the words of Dr. Richard Brown, “Things are expanding and we need new words. In just the last few decades, the world has become a very different place.”
Quetta – 10 to the 30th power or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
ronna – 10 to the 27th power or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
ronto – 10 to the negative 27th power.
quecto – 10 to the negative 30th power.
