Support peta prefix

[plajjan]

I'm dealing with lots of numbers in the peta range but it switches over from Tera to 10^15 when passing 1000 tera. Could we have it as peta instead? :)

[OAGr]

We don't write out the names, just the letters. So that would be 1P. Personally, if I saw a number saying 30P, I would be confused. Does anyone else have an opinion here?

This part of the codebase is here btw: https://github.com/getguesstimate/guesstimate-app/blob/master/src/lib/numberShower/numberShower.js

[plajjan]

Yes, I meant 'P' and not actually peta.

Perhaps it is confusing. Being a network / computer person I find it's rather natural with the metric prefixes kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, exa prefixes.

I see that 10^9 is called 'B', presumably for billion. I was never a fan of that as it's somewhat ambiguous (short vs long scale) and means different things in different countries. SI prefix is (G)iga.

[OAGr]

That makes sense.

It used to be (G), then someone complained about it. It probably would make sense to go all SI, and have a hover over to explain.

Most non-technical people don't seem to understand (G)iga, but maybe with some education they will :) One of the things I'm hoping for with Guesstimate is to be able to educate people about numbers and uncertainty. I'm not sure how doable that is (vs. focussing on the people who already understand those things), but it seems worth finding out.

[OAGr]

Added as 'discussion' because the bottleneck is the choice; not the functionality.