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Subject:Tera and lots of other bytes From:Simon North <snorth -at- TEDOPRES -dot- NL> Date:Thu, 4 Jan 1996 08:59:25 GMT
On the subject of 'terrobytes', the new SI multipliers and dividers caught
me on the hop once too. Maybe the following will help ("**" means "to the
power of"):
Multipliers
kilo k 10**3
mega M 10**6
giga G 10**9
tera T 10**12
peta P 10**15
exa E 10**18
zetta Z 10**21
yotta Y 10**24
Dividers
milli m 10**-3
micro f 10**-6
nano n 10**-9
pico p 10**-12
femto f 10**-15
atto a 10**-18
zepto z 10**-21
yocto y 10**-24
I'd be interested to know what brain thought these up!!
