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

[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-".