From: norm.raphael@jamesbury.com Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 12:59 PM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Meta, giga, yadda yadda yadda (was Re: Comments on Compaq presentation) eplan@kapsch.net on 10/05/2001 06:37:10 AM Please respond to eplan@kapsch.net To: Info-VAX@mvb.saic.com cc: Subject: Meta, giga, yadda yadda yadda (was Re: Comments on Compaq presentation) > In article <3BBD68AF.8936D2D8@videotron.ca>, JF Mezei writes: > >Here is the official list: > > megabyte MEGA (6) Million > > gigabyte GIGA (9) Billion > > terabyte TERA (12) Trillion > > hexabyte There is no hexabyte, see EXA) > > petabyte PETA (15) Quadrillion > > exabyte (he made fun of that one !) EXA (18) Quintillion (from Greek Hexa, there is no hexa-) > > zettabyte ZETTA (21) Sextillion > > yottabyte (24 zeros in that number !) YOTTA(24) Septillion I can find no further entries. > > MEGA (6), GIGA (9), TERA (12), PETA (15), EXA (18), ZETTA (21), YOTTA (24) > > -- > Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTOEGER Tel. +43 1 81111-2651 > Network and OpenVMS system manager Fax. +43 1 81111-888 > <<< KAPSCH AG Wagenseilgasse 1 E-mail eplan@kapsch.net > A-1121 VIENNA AUSTRIA "I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist" American System NAME VALUE IN NUMBER NUMBER OF POWERS OF GROUPS OF OF TEN ZEROS THREE 0'S AFTER 1,000 million 10^6 6 1 billion 10^9 9 2 trillion 10^12 12 3 quadrillion 10^15 15 4 quintillion 10^18 18 5 sextillion 10^21 21 6 septillion 10^24 24 7 octillion 10^27 27 8 nonillion 10^30 30 9 decillion 10^33 33 10 undecillion 10^36 36 11 duodecillion 10^39 39 12 tredecillion 10^42 42 13 quattuordecillion 10^45 45 14 quindecillion 10^48 48 15 sexdecillion 10^51 51 16 septendecillion 10^54 54 17 octodecillion 10^57 57 18 novemdecillion 10^60 60 19 vigintillion 10^63 63 20