[time-nuts] Re: leap seconds finally being retired?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Nov 23 20:55:04 UTC 2022


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Tom Van Baak via time-nuts writes:

> On a lesser note, resolution 3 is the addition of new SI prefixes for a 
> couple more outrageously large and small units. They have now run out of 
> letters.

Not quite: µ set a precedent for using greek letters as prefixes, so there's room for another dozen prefixes.

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