Actually, Tanel was right on the money with zetta and yotta.

Here's a small table:
Prefix  Abbr.   Base 10   Base 2
------  -----   -------   ------
kilo-   k       10^3      2^10
mega-   M       10^6      2^20
giga-   G       10^9      2^30
tera-   T       10^12     2^40
peta-   P       10^15     2^50
exa-    E       10^18     2^60
zetta-  Z       10^21     2^70
yotta-  Y       10^24     2^80

So, a yottabyte is really astronomical.  A 64-bit CPU could theoretically
address 16 exabytes of memory.

-Mark


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Thursday, December 11, 2003, 6:14:25 PM, Tanel Poder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
TP> Hurry up, zettabyte and yottabyte might still be free ;)

Actually, now I wonder, how far do the names go? We have
kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, and then
what?

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