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How Ship Prefixes Reveal a Vessel’s Purpose and Type

This episode explores ship prefixes - the abbreviations placed before a vessel’s name that reveal its type, purpose, or ...
The Economist

As the scale of science expands, so does the language of prefixes

NOWADAYS EVERY factory seems to be a “gigafactory”. Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla, recently cut the ribbon on a fourth facility by that name, in Berlin. Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory has been in the ...
NPR

The world generates so much data that new unit measurements were created to keep up

As ever more digital data is created and stored, the world needs more unit measurements to keep up with the ever-expanding numbers. To do so, the 27th General Conference on Weights and Measures on ...