Long time no update. ;=/

[lionkingcmsl]

Yes, I'm still alive. It's just that life, in general has taken me in new directions.

Now for a question for those that know such things: What comes after tera, as in terabyte?
We have deca for ten: decade; cent for hundred: century; kilo for thousand: kilobyte; mega for million: megabyte; giga for billion (1,000,000,000): gigabyte; and tera for trillion (1,000,000,000,000): terabyte. So what's next?

"Tetra" is used for four: tetrahedron, a four sided solid, used in gaming as the d4. So would the next in series be "tetrabyte"?

Comments

[plonq.livejournal.com]

Peta (not to be mistaken for the animal rights crazies).

[herveus.livejournal.com]

...or People Eating Tasty Animals

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

This may interest you, though it does not go all the way up to yottabytes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_%28data%29

-=TK

[avenginglioness.livejournal.com]

Yoda bites?! O.O;

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Only if you ask him nicely. Or if there's a member of PETA around.

[sleepyjohn00.livejournal.com]

There are two informal proposals circulating for a prefix to indicate 10**27:

bronto-

and

hella-

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Except they would have to change "bronto-" to "brachio-".

[dhlawrence.livejournal.com]

Yes, as Plonq said it's Peta (though I wonder if the bad press associated with that name might not convince them to find something else).

Good to see you again!

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Peta

[sleepyjohn00.livejournal.com]

I was wondering where you had gone off to, and if you liked the weather there better.

[mejeep.livejournal.com]

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci499008,00.html

YottaBytes are a lottaBytes!