Talk:Zetta-
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[edit] Are you sure??
According to what I originally learned, this prefix is based on the end of the Roman Alphabet (Z, Y, ...), but this article says it came from French Septem. Why is this root in dispute??
66.245.13.233 22:52, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- The root is from the horse's mouth, that is to say the official SI document. Simultaneously, you're not completely wrong; the symbol (Z) was chosen partly because it lies at the end of the alphabet (and partly because there aren't that many letters left to make prefix symbols out of!). And that's sept, not septem (which sounds like Latin).
- Urhixidur 23:22, 2004 Aug 30 (UTC)
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- So this means it might be both?? 66.245.13.233 23:24, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Coming years late into this conversation: if it's from septem, why is it zetta? Better way to put it, since it's zetta, how can it be said to be from septem? Koro Neil (talk) 14:33, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
piece of bollock... Zeta is a greek letter I don't see any closer relation to other language...85.72.144.11 (talk) 11:49, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

