yobibyte.
That's a big number
To get my head round it, I recently did some math to put it in
context. My head is too frazzled to reproduce the proof on
a Monday morning, but within reasonable tolerences:
If you were to store a yobibite of data on modern laptop drives,
(say 70Gb capacity - that
Andrew Beattie said:
On the other hand, if you were somehow able to store a byte
of information in a single molecule, then you could store
a yobibyte in a single cup of really hot tea.
The problem would then become one of how you could use your laptop without
spilling some of your data and
At 11:31 04/07/03 +0100, Peter Haworth wrote:
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.
Cause zetta and yotta are greek letters and that is the order they come in
the greek alphabet?
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:56:04AM +0100, Alex McLintock wrote:
Cause zetta and yotta are greek letters and that is the order they come in
the greek alphabet?
At least that is what my greek teacher told me.
http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/lessons/alphabet.html
He was, as you see, lying.
R
Peter Haworth said:
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 21:28:07 -0400, muppet wrote:
kbyte 1024 byte
megabyte 1024 kbyte
gigabyte 1024 megabyte
+terabyte1024 gigabyte
+petabyte1024 terabyte
+exabyte 1024 petabyte
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:31:46AM +0100, Peter Haworth wrote:
megabyte 1024 kbyte
gigabyte 1024 megabyte
+terabyte 1024 gigabyte
+petabyte 1024 terabyte
+exabyte1024 petabyte
+zettabyte 1024 exabyte
+yottabyte
Steve Mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Roger Horne wrote:
On Fri 27 Jun, Philip Newton wrote:
You have: cwt
You want:
Definition: hundredweight = 100 pounds = 45.359237 kg
which sounds as if it *is* 100 somethings.
But is wrong. There are 112 pounds in a hundredweight (or were when
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Tom Hukins wrote:
I wonder what the value should be for a trilobyte.
/me, impressed by this riff, tries to pick up from there...
$ grep 'byte$' /usr/share/dict/words
presbyte
$ dict presbyte
1 definition found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 06:44:55PM +0100, Steve Mynott wrote:
GNU units has 'brhundredweight' defined whereas the FreeBSD 4.5
units(1) doesn't (and probably should).
You've inspired me to write this simple patch, which is now waiting
for the approval of a src committer:
On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 05:59 AM, Tom Hukins wrote:
http://people.freebsd.org/~tom/tmp/units/
i've always loved the sound of yottabyte. yotta yotta yotta.
anyway, i read these aloud to my wife:
kbyte1024 byte
megabyte 1024 kbyte
gigabyte
Roger Horne wrote:
On Fri 27 Jun, Philip Newton wrote:
You have: cwt
You want:
Definition: hundredweight = 100 pounds = 45.359237 kg
which sounds as if it *is* 100 somethings.
But is wrong. There are 112 pounds in a hundredweight (or were when I was at
school).
See
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