07 October 2010

Hellacious

According to Wired, the latest unit of measure proposed for adoption by the International Committee for Weights and Measures is hella, a prefix meaning 1027, or 10 to the 27th power. Earth's mass, therefore, would be a mere six hellagrams, or a hell of a lot of grams...

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