The 20 recognized metric prefixes have been specified by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) for the International System of Units (SI), and ... from either Latin or Greek terms.

Among them is the compulsory use of the metric system of weights and measures ... To measure the mood, Marketplace traveled to the English Midlands city of Shrewsbury, home to one of the ...

The metric system's governing body has added some new terms to help describe massive amounts of data. The General Conference on Weights and Measures last week added the prefixes "ronna" and "quetta." ...

To do so, the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures on Friday introduced four new prefixes to the International System of Units, or metric system: ronna (27 zeroes after the first digit ...