Picoblog Picks #1: Metric System Prefixes:
The metric system offers some great prefixes for generating new words.
Peta – 1,000,000,000,000,000 – quadrillion
Tera – 1,000,000,000,000 – trillion
Giga – 1,000,000,000 – billion
Mega – 1,000,000 – million
Kilo – 1,000 – thousand
Hecto – 100 – hundred
Deka – 10 – ten
Deci – 0.1 – tenth
Centi – 0.01 – hundredth
Milli – 0.001 – thousandth
Micro – 0.000,001 – millionth
Nano – 0.000,000,001 – billionth – atomic and small molecular scale
Pico – 0.000,000,000,001 – trillionth – subatomic scale
Femto – 0.000,000,000,000,001 – quadrillionth
New word: Picoblog – This blog is too small to be called either a microblog or a nanoblog.
A. C. Cockerill 
But it’s too good to be called a picoblog – or even a deciblog. Think bigger, Ashley.
By: David N. Walker on October 18, 2013
at 9:53 pm
Thank you so much, David. I selected picoblog, because it’s aimed for viewing on smartphones as well as computers. 🙂 Cheers, Ashley
By: A. C. Cockerill on October 18, 2013
at 10:02 pm