Jerry Fochtman writes:

> Following 'TERA' is 'PETA', 'EXA', 'ZETTA' and 'YOTTA'.
> See http://www.ccsf.caltech.edu/%7Eroy/dataquan/ety.html

Very interesting!  Including the comment:

> Remember, both according to CGMP [French acronym for "General Conference
> for Weights and Measures] and SI [presumably the French acronym from which
> we get ISO], the prefixes refer to powers of 10. Mega is 10**6, exactly
> 1,000,000, kilo is exactly 1000, not 1024.

Great.  Now it's all clear as mud. :/

That *can't* mean (referring to Gavin's post) that HP Marketing was
accurate in describing the "wash tub" drives as 404 MB...can it? ;)

--Glenn Cole
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