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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Public service announcement.Kilo comes from the Greek "khilhoi", meaning "a thousand". Mega from the Greek meaning "great", Giga from the Latin "gigas" meaning "giant", Tera from the Greek "teras" meaning "monster". Peta and Exa from the Greek words "pente" and "hex" meaning five and six.
The next prefixes are Latin. Zetta from the last letter of the Latin alphabet, then Yotta from the penultimate and so on. Presumably, they didn't think they'd need a prefix greater than zetta when they coined it.
This means, at some point, there will be a "mingabyte" drive in your computer, which I am lobbying to be renamed the "montybyte".
Public service announcement ends.
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Kroney, Wed 9 May 2012, 17:36,
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Prefixes, like suffixes, non?Not like auspices.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 May 2012, 17:46,
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who?Can we get back to the days of the same six posters making crap puns and complaining about how dead it was here, please? I am out of my comfort zone with all these ALLEGEDLY new posters coming in, pretending they're ME
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hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 9 May 2012, 17:44,
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You've got his number alright.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 May 2012, 17:47,
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I know(
hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 9 May 2012, 17:49,
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he isDeffo long winded
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hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Wed 9 May 2012, 17:57,
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there's a campaign to make the prefix for 10^27 "Hella"(
The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 9 May 2012, 17:57,
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where's the ming coming from?
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Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 9 May 2012, 17:59,
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