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The article informs that as science has expanded to the huge and the tiny, the need for new metricsystem prefixes has grown accordingly. It mentions when the billion-byte mark was crossed, many began encountering "giga-" for the first time, strange new linguistic territory opened up by Moore's Law, meanwhile nanotechnology is big, so to speak nanoparticles making up nanobeads are hot topics in science and technology.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the March 24, 2012 issue, which the letter writer feels overused the prefix "un-".