Billions

[Ivan A Derzhanski <cbmvax!uunet!COGSCI.ED.AC.UK!cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu!iad>]

>  Date:        Tue, 11 Feb 1992 12:31:00 EST
>  From: Guy Steele <gls@COM.THINK>
>
>  I assure you that those who are buying memory chips and disk drives
>  for their computers are very interested in nanoseconds and gigabytes.
>  Terabytes and teraflops have become common terms of discussion over
>  the last few years as it becomes apparent that their implementation
>  will soon be a reality (indeed, terabyte tape backup was available
>  well over ten years ago).  Laser impulses for fiber optics are best
>  measured in picoseconds, if not femtoseconds, and we are already
>  beginning to think about petabyte computer memories.

What you say about seconds is true.  But let's leave bytes alone.  The
prefixes have a different meaning when attached to them, the factor
being 1024 rather than 1000.

I'm not sure how Lojban should handle this fact.

Ivan