I'd like to have notations using the prefixes from the international system of units, i.e.:
k M G T P E Z Y R Q B
Or their long forms:
Kilo Mega Giga Tera Peta Exa Zetta Yotta Ronna Quecca Bundecca
Note that I'm including the proposal for Ronna and Quecca, as well as the hypothetical Bundecca.
I guess that a nice approach would be to add this as a setting, and letting the abbreviate function use either the "standard" list (K M B T Qa Qt Sx Sp Oc No Dc, etc), the "short SI" list (k M G T P E Z Y R Q B) or the "long SI" list (Kilo Mega Giga Tera Peta Exa Zetta Yotta Ronna Quecca Bundecca). I don't see a need to add whole new notations, but rather change how the ones using the "standard" suffixes work.
There's also a proposal to extend the SI prefixes up to 10^48, which boils down to
k M G T P E Z Y kY MY GY TY PY EY ZY YY
Arguably this could be extended like...
k M G T P E Z Y R Q B kB MB GB TB PB EB ZB YB RB QB BB kBB MBB GBB TBB PBB EBB ZBB YBB RBB QBB BBB kBBB
...and later, add an exponent to the Bundeccas (to support those insane 1e9999999999 numbers), like
MB² = MBB
MB³ = MBBB
MB⁴ = MBBBB
I'd like to have notations using the prefixes from the international system of units, i.e.:
Or their long forms:
Note that I'm including the proposal for Ronna and Quecca, as well as the hypothetical Bundecca.
I guess that a nice approach would be to add this as a setting, and letting the
abbreviatefunction use either the "standard" list (K M B T Qa Qt Sx Sp Oc No Dc, etc), the "short SI" list (k M G T P E Z Y R Q B) or the "long SI" list (Kilo Mega Giga Tera Peta Exa Zetta Yotta Ronna Quecca Bundecca). I don't see a need to add whole new notations, but rather change how the ones using the "standard" suffixes work.There's also a proposal to extend the SI prefixes up to 10^48, which boils down to
Arguably this could be extended like...
...and later, add an exponent to the Bundeccas (to support those insane
1e9999999999numbers), like