Peter Haworth said:

> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 21:28:07 -0400, muppet wrote:

>> " kbyte                      1024 byte
>>   megabyte           1024 kbyte
>>   gigabyte           1024 megabyte
>> +terabyte            1024 gigabyte
>> +petabyte            1024 terabyte
>> +exabyte                     1024 petabyte
>> +zettabyte           1024 exabyte
>> +yottabyte           1024 zettabyte"

> Come to think of it, why aren't zetta and yotta the other way round?
> That way you'd at least get (e)x y z at the end, which would make some
> kind of sense.

It was supposed to be exa, yetta, zotta, but they had a German temp and no
one noticed until too late.

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