On 10/6/06, Miguel Delapaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Non-SI Prefixes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-SI_unit_prefix

Most of these also seem also in use as prefix in various diseases...
Good thing they have a lot of spare ones.

:soapbox.
I am a little concerned that there still is the discrepancy between
1000^n and 1024^n depending on the context. While we could get away
with this when n was 1, now that we're at n=3 the error is significant
when you confuse them.
At one point I believe people declared that in disk storage context a
GB would mean 1000^3 where in memory it is 1024^3. I think that's
silly. So how about virtual memory and paging? When we get to Exabytes
the difference is as much as between an 3390 on MVS and on VM.

Rob

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