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I don't think you're wrong to be cautious about making science too casual, but I don't think everybody will immediately look at the word "hellabyte" and think "
by ian-g 6y ago
I don't think you're wrong to be cautious about making science too casual, but I don't think everybody will immediately look at the word "hellabyte" and think "Oh, somebody from the Bay named this"
I can't say it sounds any more silly to me than zettabyte or yottabyte
- koliber 6y agoI represent the perspective parent supposed. Hellabyte sounds as reasonable as any other prefix. Sometimes science is top down. Sometimes it’s bottom up. I welcome a balanced mix of both approaches. Let popularity (in an extremely broad sense of the word) decide which prefixes suggested by the masses win, as well as who gets to sit on committees that will dictate new prefix suggestions and approve them. When you look around, this is just how the world works.