The world generates so much data that new unit measurements were created to keep up
The mass of the Earth can now be measured as 6 ronnagrams rather than 6,000 yottagrams. An electron's mass can now be said to be about 1 rontogram rather than 0.001 yoctograms.
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 Friday introduced four new prefixes
