Student Wants Science To Name 'Hella' Big Number 193
thodelu writes "Austin Sendek, a 20-year-old UC Davis student, is trying to get scientists from Boise to Beijing to use the term 'hella' to denote the unimaginably huge, seldom-cited quantity of 10 to the 27th power. From the article: 'It started as a joke, but Sendek's Facebook petition: to the Consultative Committee on Units, a subdivision of the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, has drawn more than 60,000 supporters. Its chances for formal adoption by the global weights-and-measures community are hella dim, but Google was so taken with Sendek's modest proposal that it incorporated "hella" in its online calculator.'"
Dumb whim. (Score:2, Insightful)
Keep it in urban dictionary, where it belongs.
"lotsa" taken? (Score:3, Insightful)
I think it would be wise not to make reference to a religious concept in an SI prefix.
What? (Score:2, Insightful)
"Hella" refers to "hell", a religious term. If science is going to use religion, then it should at least use it accurately.
"Hella" is a perfectly valid prefix, but should be reserved for 10^666.
Re:Ye gods no! (Score:1, Insightful)
Wicked isn't an east coast thing. It's a "morons from Boston" thing, but I'm being redundant.