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From: dmt@ptsfa.UUCP (Dave Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Simple query (prefixing)
Message-ID: <3875@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 87 01:15:43 GMT
References: <3633@ames.arpa>
Reply-To: dmt@ptsfa.UUCP (Dave Turner)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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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?  Too many people talking about

SI (Systeme International d'Unites) which gave use the prefixes has prefixes
that run from 10^18 to 10^-18:

	10^18	exa
	10^15	peta
	10^12	tera
	...
	10^-12	pico
	10^-15	femto
	10^-18	atto

Since SI forbids compound prefixes (remember micromicrofarads? now pico)
they'll have to invent some new ones sooner or later.

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