On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Brian Chase wrote:

> Well, "giga" is the SI prefix for 10^9.  There's a discussion going on
> in a.f.c right now about the alternative prefixes proposed a few years
> back: kibi, mebi, gigi, tebi, and exbi for 2^10, 2^20, 2^30, 2^40, and
> 2^50, respectively.  I'm okay with the ambiguity created by the various
> context sensitive uses of "giga"; other people think this ambiguity is
> pure evil.  But mostly it's just that I'm against the proposed base two
> prefixes becuase they make you sound like a sissy-boy when you use them!

The discussion have been going on for years. Nobody will probably ever
manage to change things. And I agree, kibibyte sounds sissy. :-)

> gigibyte?  mebibyte?  kibibyte?  Like *I'm* gonna be caught dead saying
> any of those.  I'm sticking to the /manly/ prefixes: KILO! MEGA! GIGA!
> TERA!  GRARR!

GRARR??? Sounds really huge. 10^30 at least. Never seen it
before. Hmmm...
- I've got a 10 Grarrbyte disk.
- Wow. Impressive numbers.

	Johnny

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