Post #856543

TIL: "vendeko" is a still not accepted prefix meaning 10^{-33}, near the Planck scale if we talk about meters. There are others, like vendeka for a positive exponent. And there're also xenno and xenna, 10^{-30} and 10^{30}. Also not accepted. I learnt this in Greg Egan's "Schild's Ladder". A quote by Douglas Hofstadter, from one his columns in Scientific American (On Number Numbness): "[...]If [the] numbers [have] millions or billions of digits, the numerals themselves (the colossal strings of digits) would cease to be visualizable, and your perceptual reality would be forced to take another leap upward in abstraction — to the number that counts the digits in the number that counts the digits in the number that counts the objects concerned.[...]" (From: https://www.mrob.com/pub/math/largenum.html)