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== Notes == {{reflist|group="nb"|refs= <ref group="nb" name="NB_Cubic">Except in the case of square and cubic units: in this case the SI prefixes provide only steps of a factor of one million or one billion respectively.</ref> <ref group="nb" name="NB_Exp-Shift">One ''exponent shift'' action would decrease the exponent by the same amount as the decimal point would be moved to the right, so that the value of the displayed number does not change. Preceding the keypress with {{button|INV}} would inverse the action in the other direction.</ref> <ref group="nb" name="NB_NewBinPrefix">Natural binary counterparts to the ''[[ronna-]]'' and ''[[quetta-]]'' decimal prefixes introduced in 2022 were suggested in a consultation paper of the [[International Committee for Weights and Measures]]' Consultative Committee for Units (CCU) as ''[[robi-]]'' (Ri, 1024<sup>9</sup>) and ''[[quebi-]]'' (Qi, 1024<sup>10</sup>). {{Asof|2022}}, these binary prefixes have not been adopted by the IEC and ISO.<!-- {{cite journal |title=A further short history of the SI prefixes |journal=[[Metrologia]] |department=Letter to the editor |author-first=Richard J. C. |author-last=Brown |date=2023 |orig-date=2022-02-08, 2022-04-01, 2022-11-24 |volume=60 |publisher=[[BIPM]] & [[IOP Publishing Ltd]] |id=013001 |doi=10.1088/1681-7575/ac6afd |url=https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1681-7575/ac6afd/pdf |access-date=2022-12-20 |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date=}} (1+4 pages){{cite journal |title=Reply to 'Facing a shortage of the Latin letters for the prospective new SI symbols: alternative proposal for the new SI prefixes' |author-last=Brown |author-first=Richard J. C. |date=2022-04-27 |journal={{ill|Accreditation and Quality Assurance|de}} |volume=27 |issue= |pages=143β144 |doi=10.1007/s00769-022-01499-7}} --></ref> }}
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