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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] compare-by-hash
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On Thu Jul 31 22:53:21 EDT 2003, geoff@collyer.net wrote:
> Some new prefixes were blessed in 1991.  Yotta (appreviated `Y') is
> 10=E2=81=B2=E2=81=B4, Zetta (`Z') is 10=E2=81=B2=E2=81=B1.  In the othe=
r direction, beyond
> pico, femto and atto, zepto (`z') is 10=E2=81=BB=E2=81=B2=E2=81=B1, yoc=
to (`y') is
> 10=E2=81=BB=E2=81=B2=E2=81=B4.  http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/prefi=
xes.html has the
> whole story.

So, that would make 2^80 a yobibyte (1YiB) in the International
Electrotechnical Commission's scheme for prefixes of powers of 2?