October 18, 2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the International System of Units, also known as the SI System. Resolution 12 of the 11th meeting of the CGPM (1960) established the system as the world ...

A metric prefix is a numerical multiplier that is placed before a basic unit of measure to indicate a specified multiple ... for the International System of Units (SI), and are used to make describing ...

SI uses seven base units of measurement, such as the meter ... first time since 1991 that new prefixes have been added to the table. While ronnabytes and quettabytes of data will probably be ...

is participating in a worldwide effort to recommend major revisions to the International System of Units (SI), the modern metric system that is the basis of global measurements in commerce ...

The International System of Units (SI) is a standard, agreed on by most scientists, that underpins every measurement. As well as defining things like the kilogram and the metre, it sets how very ...

Metric measurements — also known as the International System of Units, or SI — are managed by a formal international organization. The rulers of the rulers have rules, and "hellabyte" and ...