Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What about dog-byte? At 09:41 AM 11/29/97 -0500, you wrote: >Gee! I thought that after Zepo came Harpo, Chico and Groucho! >Ya learn something new every day. > >shier@mnsinc.com >-----Original Message----- >From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Date: Friday, November 28, 1997 9:19 PM >Subject: Giga, Trea, and beyond > > >>At 02:16 PM 11/28/97, Bill wrote: >>> >>>So what's the next word after terabyte (1000 terabytes)? My vote is for >>>gazigabyte, but I'm sure someone already has something more technical and >>>rational -- and boring -- ready to go. Anyone? (I've been asking my >>>computer science colleagues for a while, and no one has had an answer >yet.) >>> >> >>Bill, >> >>The answer is very simple... >> >>For thjose who want to know the powers of ten nomenclature... here it is: >> >>S P A C E - Bits or bytes >> Power of 10 >>Kilo (K) Thousand 3 >>Mega (M) Million 6 >>Giga (G) Billion 9 >>Tera (T) Trillion 12 >>Peta (P) Quadrillion 15 >>Exa (E) Quintillion 18 >>Zetta (Z) Sextillion 21 >>Yotta (Y) Septillion 24 >> >> >>T I M E - Fraction of second >> Power of 10 >>Millisecond (ms) Thousandth -3 >>Microsecond (aes) Millionth -6 >>Nanosecond (ns) Billionth -9 >>Picosecond (ps) Trillionth -12 >>Femtosecond (fs) Quadrillionth -15 >>Attosecond (as) Quintillionth -18 >>Zeposecond (zs) Sextillionth -21 >>Yoctosecond (ys) Septillionth -24 >> >> >>Storage/channel capacity measured in: >> >>CPU word size Bits >>Bus size Bits >>Disk, tape Bytes >> >>MEMORY >>overall capacity Bytes >>SIMM or SIP module Bytes >>Individual chip Bits >> >> > > >