Looking at this scale, we can see that 2.5 Gigabytes would mean 2.5 x 109bytes, or 2.5 billion bytes. Likewise, 3.21 picoamps would mean 3.21 x 10-12amps, or 3.21 1/trillionths of an amp. Other metric prefixes exist to symbolize powers of ten for extremely small and extremely large ...
decem [1],tenin Latin • The correct symbol for the prefixdekaisda, butdkis common in the United States. The correct symbol for the prefixmicrois the greek letterμ. Because the SI does not give an acceptable alternative in an ASCII environment, three prefix symbols have gained acceptance ...
Discussion of what size external disk drive to buy (I’m thinking of a 500Gb model to put an end to data squeeze for a good long time) lead to a question about the meaning of the SI prefix tera-. Wikipedia’sSI prefix pageexplains that the prefixes started from Greek roots for large ...
In terms of computing, metric prefixes have been tricky to use, since computers work in terms of powers of two, rather than powers of ten. New binary prefixes were invented a few decades ago. They match the metric prefixes in every respect except two: the shorthand symbols are slightly diff...
ten timesmore; and the digit immediately to itsrightis worth ten timesless. The same holds true foreverydigit inanynumber, from 10 to onegoogol. Indeed, theamountof digits that can be used isinfinite, since, as has already beenproven, 1 canalwaysbe added to any number, making for some...
Well, back in the days of scientists and engineers using “slide rule” analog computers, these techniques were indispensable. The “hard” arithmetic (dealing with the significant digit figures) would be performed with the slide rule while the powers-of-ten could be figured without any help at...