From: norm.raphael@jamesbury.com
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 9:14 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: Meta, giga, yadda yadda yadda (was Re: Comments on Compaq
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Thanks, Jim.

The base-10 prefix list is here and seems not to be defined past 24-powers.
                                                                                
 http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
          SI prefixes                                                           
                                                                                
 Factor  Name    Symbol                                                         
                                                                                
 10^24   yotta   Y                                                              
 10^21   zetta   Z                                                              
 10^18   exa     E                                                              
 10^15   peta    P                                                              
 10^12   tera    T                                                              
 10^9    giga    G                                                              
 10^6    mega    M                                                              
 10^3    kilo    k                                                              
 10^2    hecto   h                                                              
 10^1    deka    da                                                             
                                                                                
 10^-1   deci    d                                                              
 10^-2   centi   c                                                              
 10^-3   milli   m                                                              
 10^-6   micro   µ [or u, if no greek symbol available -NFR]                    
 10^-9   nano    n                                                              
 10^-12  pico    p                                                              
 10^-15  femto   f                                                              
 10^-18  atto    a                                                              
 10^-21  zepto   z                                                              
 10^-24  yocto   y                                                              
                                                                                







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