On 12/18/94 at 15:56:10 der Mouse said:
>> [Physicists] are planning soon to start sending petabytes (10^15)
>> over the Internet. 10^15 is getting interesting close to the size of
>> Rubik's cube (never mind that I thought that the proper term for
>> 10^15 bytes was terabytes.)

I thought it was

kilo    10^3
mega    10^6
giga    10^9
tera    10^12
peta    10^15
exa     10^18

You are correct, of course. In retrospect, the aspect of the
article in the Chronicle that waylaid me (and which I still find
puzzling) is the absence of any mention of "tera". It is a giant
jump from "giga" to "peta", skipping "tera" on the way. But "giga"
and "peta" were juxtaposed in the article. I have known how big
"tera" is for years -- can't believe I screwed it up. It makes me
wonder if the article had it right. It is reasonable to jump from
gigabytes to petabytes in one fell swoop?

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