Get something accepted for 點解

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You'd have thought those would be big enough for anyone, but now some scientists are saying they'd like a prefix for a number followed by 27 noughts – that's a thousand trillion trillion – and a student from the University of California has started a petition on Facebook to get hella- officially accepted for the job

Pls explain the underlining sentence as I can not get the meaning, thks a lot.