Re: I know it's dumb, but.......

[Doug Breneman]

I can confirm that eka is a typo in the Planning and Admin book and should be exa. The VM Information Team will be notified, and this book will be corrected. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

In addtion, on February 23, 2005, Gerard Schildberger added an append that lists some prefixes from deca 10**1 to ukekta 10**36. BTW, Gerard spelled exa correctly.

Doug Breneman IBM Development Endicott, New York

Thursday, October 05, 2006 2:51 PM
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From: "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I know it's dumb, but.......


I am neither Greek nor a scholar, but your explanation is as described in any reference I have found. Now, what is the origin of the prefix "yotta"? How did "octo" get morphed to "yotta"? At least the derivation of "exa" from "hexa" is fairly easy to see.

Regards,
Richard Schuh


> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Alan Altmark
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 11:20 AM
> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
> Subject: Re: I know it's dumb, but.......
>
>
> On Thursday, 10/05/2006 at 02:04 AST, "Parmelee, Phil"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I don?t mean to impose on all of the ?work related?
> discussions here,
> but.....
> >
> > I have this hang up about pronunciation. I know, it?s a personal
> thing......
> >
> > On pg 44 of z/VM CP Planning and Administration
> SC24-6083-03, there is a
> term
> > Ekabytes.
> >
> > I would like to know how to pronounce it. Is it Eck as in a
> short e, or
> Eeeeak
> > as with a long E
> >
> > People always like to set me straight, and this time I
> would appreciate
> it.
>
> I *think* that's a misspelling. The word is "exabytes".
> Given its origin
> in the Greek "hexa" (exa is 10^6), the pronounciation should
> be "eksa",
> not "eka". But I leave it to the Greek scholars among us to confirm.
>
> Alan Altmark
> z/VM Development
> IBM Endicott
>