Aww come-mon, who cares, just smoke a couple big fat joints like dear old Carl and say “BILLLlllions upon BILLLlllions.” Don’t forget to gesture about the size of a bread-box with you hands.
God I miss him. sniff
Hey, now all of that’s less than half (5 tenths) the whole job. What goes up to infinity must also go down to zero, right? Like we have:
tenths
hundreds
thousands
…shoot the piano typist.
You’ll note that this system is not symmetircal about 1, i.e., there are no unitths/uniths. Somewhere along the line, those Hindu-Arabic mathicators screwed up! Surely the software artists can repair this problem. They can fix ANYTHING, right?
We’ve got to watch out how we play these things around here, though. We may end up enticing our dear Satan to post the latest calculation of <font face=“symbol”>p</font> to all its glowing decimal places, each in a different color.
Ray (got someone’s number)
How about bytes? There’s:
byte
kilobyte
megabyte
gigabyte
terrabyte (?)
What comes after that?
peta, then exa, assuming, of course that when the computer industry ends up needing prefixes beyond tera, they stick with the current standard of using standard metric prefixes.
Eschew Obfuscation