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- prefix In the
International System of Units and othermetric systems of units, multiplying theunit to which it is attached by 10−24. Symbol: y
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktō, "eight"), for the eighth order of 10−3. The letter y was added, as the second term in a series running backwards through the alphabet.
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