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> Now I think about it, why is GB not called BB? Because it doesn’t scale. Giga is the metric prefix for “times billion”. However, large (and small) numbers d
by sgjohnson 5y ago
> Now I think about it, why is GB not called BB?
Because it doesn’t scale. Giga is the metric prefix for “times billion”.
However, large (and small) numbers don’t end there. What about Quadrillion and Quintillion? What about milli and micro?
- ZYinMD 5y agoOK, so what you mean is, million and mega happen to share the initial, and trillion and tera happen to share too, but billion and giga happen to not share an initial.