Zetta...wasn't that F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife? Or am I thinking of Dobie Gillis's girlfriend?
Just yesterday I read the abstract of a paper on methane hydrate release that gave units of methane in teratons. So it looks like the usage is creeping out of computer engineering into general physics. Either that, or they were facing a word-count limit and didn't want to type out "quadrillion tons." I learn this a.m. from Wikipedia that we're supposed to say "tebi", "pebi", "exbi", "yobi" and "zebi" when it's bytes, instead of "tera", "peta", "exa", "yotta" and "zetta." I have a hard enough time remembering the sequence and amounts for the "decimal" terms. On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Dana Paxson <[email protected]> wrote: > I love it! > > I've seen terms among computer types, like 'mongo' or 'moby' for huge, but > not the prefixes. The existing official terms for metric scaling are > already pretty weird as they are - yotta and zetta for 10^24 and10^21, and > yokto and zepto for their inverses. 'Zepto' makes me want to see 'Harpto', > 'Grouchto', and 'Chicto'. > > > On 3/3/2010 8:37 AM, Dave Henn wrote: > >> It turns out that physicists can be funny while producing interesting >> data. Check it out at http://r-spec.org/. >> >> -- >> Dave Henn >> [email protected] >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
