hihi, all - Bob Baillie wrote:
When we get a thousand zettaflops, will have a yottaflop. I believe the next prefix after that hasn't even been defined yet.
i have seen a partly facetious proposal to use harpo and groucho for the next two prefixes (and harpi and grouchi in the small direction) - i quote from some web site (file quantifiers.html somewhere): [1993 update: hacker Morgan Burke has proposed, to general approval on USENET, the following additional prefixes: harpo 10^-27 groucho 10^-30 harpi 10^27 grouchi 10^30 We observe that this would leave the prefixes zeppo-, gummo-, and chico- available for future expansion. Sadly, there is little immediate prospect that Mr. Burke's eminently sensible proposal will be ratified.] 8-) more soon, cal