Thursday, December 27, 2012

Learning names | Largest to smallest

Bismillah.

It would be cool and wise to know the metrics.

I was chatting with a colleague [I met for the first time] about Femto and Nano. I asked him about the difference between the two. It's always fun to hear engineers speak. They are simply brilliant. He read out to me from the largest to the smallest so I'd have a better perspective of things.

Allah taught Adam all the names. I thought we should know the names of unit of creation for the entire spectrum of His creations, so we have a little clue on how large and small things are. 

At one point he said:
'We are looking into these but the next big thing is Exa.'
'Oh! That's my name!' I replied : D

[That was the coolest way I've introduced myself ever! Alhamdulillah. Thank my mother for the name.]

Yotta - 10 to the power of 24
Zetta -10 to the power of 21
Exa - 10 to the power of 18 - That's a quintillion!
Peta - 10 to the power of 15
Tera - 10 to the power of 12
Giga - 10 to the power of 9
Mega - 10 to the power of 6 - This is a million.
Kilo - 10 to the power of  3
Hecto - 10 to the power of 2 
Deca - 10 to the power of 1
_______________________

Deci - 10 to the power of negative 1
Centi - 10 to the power of negative 2
Mili - 10 to the power of negative 3
Micro - 10 to the power of negative 6
Nano - 10 to the power of negative 9
Pico - 10 to the power of negative 12
Femto - 10 to the power of negative 15
Atto - 10 to the power of negative 18
Zepto - 10 to the power of negative 21
Yocto - 10 to the power of negative 24

Rabbi zidni 'ilma war zuqni fahma


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