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Kirt's Cogitations™ #132

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Peta, exa, zetta and yotta: Those are the numerical prefixes for 10¹⁵, 10¹⁸, 10²¹ and 10²⁴, respectively. Their reciprocals are femto, atto, zepto and yocto, at 10^-15, 10^-18, 10^-21 and 10^-24, respectively.

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Really Big and Really Small Kirt's Cogitations™ #132

Really Big and Really Small
Kirt's Cogitations™ #132