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From: hunt@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM (Neil Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Simple query (prefixing)
Message-ID: <443@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM>
Date: 12 Dec 87 00:48:46 GMT
References: <3633@ames.arpa>
Reply-To: hunt@spar.UUCP (Neil Hunt)
Organization: SPAR - Schlumberger Palo Alto Research
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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?

Perhaps we need some terms with more mnemonic significance
and less sharply defined mathematical significance. Here are
a few suggestions:

	Biga (pronounced `bee-ja, as in `jee-ga, for the soft-G fanatics)
	Mora
	Larga
	Betta
	Higha
	Fasta
	Hotta

as in:

  ``My machine has 1.4e5 betta more neuristors than yours, and it
  will do 3 Moralips (logical inferences per second). Of course
  if you insist on using it for floating point, it will only
  do about 7 Cray Bigaflops, or 52 XMP Bettaflops.''

  ``But my processor is built from the new Highachip technology, with
  liquidified room temperature superconductors to avoid dissipating
  the 4 Hotta joules which your system contributes to the melting
  of the polar icecap.

			(-:		:-)

Neil/.