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  Measurements, Units of Measurement, Weights and Measures - Numericana
The use of metric prefixes dates back to the inception of the French metric system, in 1793.
[2003-06-22 update:] Other dubious prefixes are also shown (vendeka, xenna, xenno, vendeko) which we discuss elsewhere.
Please, tell us whatever you know about the issue...
home.att.net /~numericana/answer/units.htm   (10374 words)

  
 Review of Iain Banks Algebraist
In the years it takes for the attackers and defenders allies to arrive sub-light at the now-isolated system, Delver Fassin Taak is tasked to find this thing and the race is on.
Now I wont spoil the book by going further into the plot save to say that everything and everyone gets together, and not without unleashing many Vendeka Joules in the process.
But then that's what happens when you have a right royal, system-wide scrap.
www.concatenation.org /frev/algebraist.html   (1923 words)

  
 TrueGaming.nl :: Gameservers, Teamspeak.
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True Gaming is part of Vendeka Internet Service, a company which is specialized in providing internet services.
True Gaming is a prominent player in the market.
www.truegaming.nl /company.php   (153 words)

  
 solve for chess
e: vendeka, xenna, xenno, and vendeko are bogus.
Before you try using them, please read these pages:
Note: vendeka, xenna, xenno, and vendeko are bogus.
www.ryxi.com /games/117-216-solve-for-chess-read.shtml   (1420 words)

  
 Large Numbers at MROB
However there have been several serious attempts to guess at their etymology and extend the pattern.
Oxford professor Jeff K. Aronson has suggested extending beyond zetta, zepto and yotta, yocto with xenta, xenno, wekta, weko, vendeka, vendeko, udeka, udeko based on the idea that the 'Z' and 'Y' prefixes would continue backwards through the English or modern Latin alphabet.
The pattern here is that we go backwards from the beginning of the alphabet [shouldn't this be "end of the alphabet"?
home.earthlink.net /~mrob/pub/math/largenum.html   (3896 words)

  
 Humor and Science - Numericana
Since the letter T is already used for tera-, the scheme would only allow 4 more pairs of prefixes, but this should be more than enough for now...
The "new" names could be "xenna", "weka", "vendeka", "udeka", for the larger prefixes, "xenno", "weko", "vendeko", "udeko", for the smaller ones.
We don't know how serious Professor Aronson really was about this...
home.att.net /~numericana/answer/humor.htm   (4402 words)

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