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 Software al dente, Inc. [log in to unmask] ....................................................................... Item Subject: cc:Mail Text