On 2006-03-26, Collector <> wrote:
> I have seen Dell advert a PC with terabytes...cool...
>
> But that will eventually wain...what's next??
> Verabytes??...zerabytes??...
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definit...499008,00.html
"Kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, and all that
Also see Kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, pebi, and all that, which are relatively new
prefixes designed to express power-of-two multiples.
Kilo, mega, giga, tera, and peta are among the list of prefixes that are used to
denote the quantity of something, such as, in computing and telecommunications,
a byte or a bit. Sometimes called prefix multipliers, these prefixes are also
used in electronics and physics. Each multiplier consists of a one-letter
abbreviation and the prefix that it stands for.
In communications, electronics, and physics, multipliers are defined in powers
of 10 from 10-24 to 1024, proceeding in increments of three orders of magnitude
(103 or 1,000). In IT and data storage, multipliers are defined in powers of 2
from 210 to 280, proceeding in increments of ten orders of magnitude (210 or
1,024). These multipliers are denoted in the following table" ...
note that the above doesn't have exponentials written correctly, although the
url reference does look and show things correctly.
> maybe back to the abacus...
There's nothing 'wrong' with nor 'too old' with the abacus that would suggest
your 'back to the abacus' statement has any validity in the context of the rest
of your message.
> peace
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Is this where I give some sort of 'V' sign and say 'cool'?
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