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Ancient Greek and Roman mythology

Phraseologism: Set horns on someone.

Meaning: To deceive the husband (about the wife, as well as about the wife's lover) (colloquial irony).

Origin: This expression is known in many European languages, but its origin is debatable. Here are some versions: 1) borrowed from German. The wives of the ancient Germans, seeing off their husbands to war, put a helmet with horns on their heads. In the language of women, putting horns on a husband meant equipping her husband on a campaign and remaining free, 2) from the myth of Actaeon, who spied on the bathing goddess Diana and was turned into a deer by her, 3) in the German imperial decree of 1427, being in the army was prohibited with his wife, who violated this prohibition had to wear horns, 4) the Byzantine emperor Andronicus Komnenos (1183-1185) allowed the husbands of those women with whom he had love affairs to hunt in his menagerie. Deer antlers were displayed on the gates of such people, jokingly they said about such a person that he had horns on his forehead.

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How young we were.

Meaning:

Recollection of past youth, events, feelings of that time (jokingly ironic).

Origin:

From a song written by the composer Alexandra Pakhmutova to the words of the poet and prose writer Nikolai Nikolaevich Dobronravov (b. 1928) for the film "My Love in the Third Year" (1977): "Nothing on earth passes without a trace, // And the youth that has gone is still immortal. // How young we were, // How sincerely we loved, // How we believed in ourselves!" Perhaps the authors of the song borrowed this phrase from the Bulgarian film "How Young We Were" (1961), filmed by director B. Zhelyazkov according to the script by X. Ganev (the film was named so in the Soviet box office.)

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The world has come close to the largest existing unit of measure for the amount of data. Therefore, new prefixes have recently been added to the International System of Units of Measurement. They say that they will last for several more decades.

For the first time in over 30 years, new terms have been officially added to the International System of Units (SI). Four new prefixes - ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto - now signify the largest and smallest numbers.

The SI system uses prefixes to conveniently indicate the number of zeros in a measured unit. For example, a value of 649 million bytes with this prefix becomes a convenient 649 megabytes.

Today, the amount of data created and consumed around the world is measured in zettabytes (add 21 zeros). After that there is another big one yottabyte, or 24 zeros after the digit. By the 2030s, the world is expected to generate one yottabyte of data per year. This amount of data, recorded on DVD, will last all the way to Mars.

At the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), global representatives voted to introduce four new SI prefixes. The number 10 with 27 zeros is now officially known as ronna, and 10 with 30 zeros is now known as quetta. The smallest prefixes are respectively designated ronto (27 decimal places) and quecto (30 decimal places). This follows naming conventions that use prefixes ending in "a" for large numbers and "o" for small numbers.

According to Dr Richard Brown, Head of Metrology at the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and lead researcher on the proposal, these names were chosen because the letters R and Q were the last two letters of the alphabet not yet used for other prefixes.

Although ronnabytes and colorbytes of data are likely to be the first uses, as are any SI prefixes, these new prefixes can be used for any unit of measure. For example, 1 kectogram is equal to the mass of one bit of data stored on a mobile phone.

It is interesting that IT companies that love to invent a "bicycle" are trying to come up with their own in the case of value prefixes. Google already convinces users that 1 yottabytes equals 000 hellabyte. However, the first letter of the hellabyte is already taken by the hekto prefix (two zeros after the number).

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