Computer monitors show financial data. More data being created and stored necessitates the use of new unit measurements. Chris Hondros/Getty Images
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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 to the International System of Units, or metric system: ronna (27 zeroes after the first digit) and quetta (30 zeroes), which
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