A campaign for “hella” to join the likes of “kilo”, “mega” and “giga” as an internationally accepted prefix is attracting growing support.  Austin Sendek, the physics student at the University of California who started the campaign, said that recent scientific developments required that the scales of measurement be extended.

10 = deca
100 = hecto
1,000 = kilo
1,000,000 = mega
1,000,000,000 = giga
1,000,000,000,000 = tera
1,000,000,000,000,000 = peta
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 = exa
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = zetta
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = yotta
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 = HELLA

I don’t like how some dude from California is trying to use Cali lingo to describe this number. “Hella” is commonly used in the San Fransisco Bay area in place of “really” or “very” when describing something. ie) Jim Varney is hella cool.

So what gives California the right to officially say that 10^24 has hella 0′s. 24 isn’t even that many zeros. I don’t even know if I would describe 24 zeros as ‘mad’ zeros. Or if chowder heads would call it a ‘wicked’ high amount of zeros.

And don’t you have to invent something to be able to name it? Like the Stone Cold Stunner, or the Ram Jam?

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