Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Wednesday Beakful of Metric Amusement

The metric prefix for a one followed by 24 zeroes (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) is "yotta." When supercomputing gets to be about one million times faster than the highest-end stuff being worked on today, we will acheive "yottaflops."

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