eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene Miya N.) (12/12/87)
We have kilo, mega, giga, tera, and I note some inconsistency
with giga. What shall we use after Tera? Too many people talking about
Teraflops machines and the Teraflops club. I'm starting to get tired of
hearing pico lately as well (but this and femto are used more
consistently).
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{uunet,hplabs,hao,ihnp4,decwrl,allegra,tektronix}!ames!aurora!eugenelittauer@amdahl.amdahl.com (Tom Littauer) (12/12/87)
In article <3633@ames.arpa> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) writes: >We have kilo, mega, giga, tera, and I note some inconsistency >with giga. What shall we use after Tera? One of our developers (coz, you read this group?) had to look into this recently. He came up with "tera" followed by "pera" followed by "exa". Alas, I have no direct reference to cite; if needed I could probably chase it down. This is *NOT* an announcement. Tom -- UUCP: littauer@amdahl.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,ihnp4,ames,uunet,cbosgd}!amdahl!littauer DDD: (408) 737-5056 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 330, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 I'll tell you when I'm giving you the party line. The rest of the time it's my very own ravings (accept no substitutes).
hunt@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM (Neil Hunt) (12/12/87)
In article <3633@ames.arpa> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) writes: >We have kilo, mega, giga, tera, and I note some inconsistency >with giga. What shall we use after Tera? Perhaps we need some terms with more mnemonic significance and less sharply defined mathematical significance. Here are a few suggestions: Biga (pronounced `bee-ja, as in `jee-ga, for the soft-G fanatics) Mora Larga Betta Higha Fasta Hotta as in: ``My machine has 1.4e5 betta more neuristors than yours, and it will do 3 Moralips (logical inferences per second). Of course if you insist on using it for floating point, it will only do about 7 Cray Bigaflops, or 52 XMP Bettaflops.'' ``But my processor is built from the new Highachip technology, with liquidified room temperature superconductors to avoid dissipating the 4 Hotta joules which your system contributes to the melting of the polar icecap. (-: :-) Neil/.
dmt@ptsfa.UUCP (Dave Turner) (12/12/87)
In article <3633@ames.arpa> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) writes: >We have kilo, mega, giga, tera, and I note some inconsistency >with giga. What shall we use after Tera? Too many people talking about SI (Systeme International d'Unites) which gave use the prefixes has prefixes that run from 10^18 to 10^-18: 10^18 exa 10^15 peta 10^12 tera ... 10^-12 pico 10^-15 femto 10^-18 atto Since SI forbids compound prefixes (remember micromicrofarads? now pico) they'll have to invent some new ones sooner or later. -- Dave Turner 415/542-1299 {ihnp4,lll-crg,qantel,pyramid}!ptsfa!dmt
kludge@pyr.gatech.EDU (Scott Dorsey) (12/12/87)
In article <3633@ames.arpa> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) writes: >We have kilo, mega, giga, tera, and I note some inconsistency >with giga. What shall we use after Tera? Too many people talking about >Teraflops machines and the Teraflops club. I'm starting to get tired of >hearing pico lately as well (but this and femto are used more >consistently). The CRC Standard Math Tables (27th Edition) says: Giga: 10^12 Pecta: 10^15 Exa: 10^18 in the list of Recommended Decimal Multiples and Submutiples for SI Units. I don't know just how strong the recommendation is, but as you have noted with Giga, it isn't as strong as it should be. -- Scott Dorsey Kaptain_Kludge SnailMail: ICS Programming Lab, Georgia Tech, Box 36681, Atlanta, Georgia 30332 Internet: kludge@pyr.gatech.edu uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,rutgers,seismo}!gatech!gitpyr!kludge
ruffwork@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff) (12/12/87)
Actuall, instead of "exa" for a prefix for 10^18 I've always
thought it should be "saga" (because 10^18 is two 10^9's; and
10^9 is a billion, so 10^18 is billions of billions ;-);-);-).
--ritchey ruffwork%oregon-state@relay.cs.net -or-
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