This won't help you pronounce it but it'll give you some idea of what to ask for in your next raise.
http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/datapowers.html
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 1:20 PM
To: [email protected]
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
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