Hell aとは 意味・読み方・使い方

接頭辞

hella-

1. (informal, neologism) A proposed synonym for ronna- (10)
   • 2010 February 20, Devin Coldewey, “Yes we can make "hellabytes" an SI-recognized term”, in TechCrunch‎:

     Point your little browser toward The Official Petition to Establish ‘Hella-‘ as the SI Prefix for 10^27 if you want your storage space in 50 years to be measured in hellabytes and the universe’s weight in hellagrams. […] One hellameter would be something like a billion light-years, and the limit of the universe as we know it seems to be, well, a fraction of that. […] A hellasecond would be about a two and a half million times the age of our galaxy.

   • 2010 August 10, Carlos Alcalã, “Physics student's prefix idea is 'hella' good”, in Phys.org‎:

     The universe, he said, is 1.4 hellameters across. The sun's power is 0.3 hellawatts.

   • 2012, Mark Clark, Star Trek FAQ: Everything Left to Know about the First Voyages of the Starship Enterprise, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, →ISBN:

     Star Trek showed us a world where doors slid open as we approached, where we had small flip-open communicators that let us talk to anyone in the world, where we had wall-size screens and video communication, silver discs that stored hellabytes of data, universal translators, medical beds, desktop computers, tablets that gave us instant access to information, supercomputers that understood speech, and a lot of other technologies we’re still designing and building.

   • 2013 October 25, Dominic Basulto, “Welcome to the hellabyte era, as in a helluva lot of data”, in The Washington Post‎:

     We are running out of words to describe how much data we have. […] MIT’s Andrew McAfee and others have actually proposed that we settle on “hellabyte” – as in, “helluva lot of data,” to describe the next stage of the data deluge.

   • 2016 November 28, John Bloomberg-Rissman, In the House of the Hangman Volume 2‎, pages 881-882:

     Really I am sitting at a desk with beautiful reflecting glass I thought I would go through to see if there is something I can use, like in 2010, UC Davis student Austin Sendek started a petition to designate "hella" as the SI (International System of Units) prefix for one octillion (10). He gathered more than 60,000 signatures and a fair amount of press coverage, but the proposal was officially rejected. However, the prefix has been adopted by Google Calculator and WolframAlpha, where you'll find units like hellavolt and hellasecond.

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