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

I had a colleague who liked to apply SI prefixes outside their usual domains. It became a running joke in the company.

"We're looking to raise 50 megadollars for our next funding round."

"The project will take about 10π megaseconds [1 year]."

Never heard megadollars. Megabucks on the other hand...

In an old video game (Might and Magic IV), you had to collect a certain number of King's Megacredits to complete the game. I always liked the sound of that, it's pretty impressively bombastic.

10π megasecond is awesome

See also the video "How big is a billion?" by the Numberphile channel:

> We discuss millions, billions, trillions and centillions is this film about the long and short scales. We also touch on quadrillions, sextillions, milliards, billiards and the Greek myriad.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ

Does a "billion" have 9 zeros or 12 zeros?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scale

https://archive.ph/cWR3N

Expands both ways — just met a micro influencer, and told him I'm a nano one.

Strange time, the future...