It is a prefix for a value raised to the twenty-seventh power, such as 10² 8311; . It is taken from Greek 949; 957; 957; 949; 945; ( ennéa "nine" ), and this needs two explanations : first, the 9 is because it counts groups of thousands, of three zeros, and hence the '27' because three zeros (000) by nine gives the 10 followed by 27 zeros as in the power of the example [note: in the case of the byte that is binary and always counts of thousands, a ronnabyte does look like 2 8313;]; and the name created by metrologist Richard Brown has an R added that is used as its symbol, because the E already has many other uses that could lead to confusion. See ronto- .