Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!gatech!pyr!kludge From: kludge@pyr.gatech.EDU (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Simple query (prefixing) Message-ID: <4645@pyr.gatech.EDU> Date: 12 Dec 87 04:13:13 GMT References: <3633@ames.arpa> Reply-To: kludge@pyr.UUCP (Scott Dorsey) Organization: Georgia College Of Universal Knowledge Lines: 24 In article <3633@ames.arpa> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) writes: >We have kilo, mega, giga, tera, and I note some inconsistency >with giga. What shall we use after Tera? Too many people talking about >Teraflops machines and the Teraflops club. I'm starting to get tired of >hearing pico lately as well (but this and femto are used more >consistently). The CRC Standard Math Tables (27th Edition) says: Giga: 10^12 Pecta: 10^15 Exa: 10^18 in the list of Recommended Decimal Multiples and Submutiples for SI Units. I don't know just how strong the recommendation is, but as you have noted with Giga, it isn't as strong as it should be. -- Scott Dorsey Kaptain_Kludge SnailMail: ICS Programming Lab, Georgia Tech, Box 36681, Atlanta, Georgia 30332 Internet: kludge@pyr.gatech.edu uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,rutgers,seismo}!gatech!gitpyr!kludge