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> It’s a shame they named their next CPU “Pentium Pro” instead of “Hexium” (or “Sexium”!) Penta- comes from the Greek, so hexa- would be more appropriate: * h
by throw0101d 2y ago
> It’s a shame they named their next CPU “Pentium Pro” instead of “Hexium” (or “Sexium”!)
Penta- comes from the Greek, so hexa- would be more appropriate:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_prefix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_prefix
The Latin is quint- and sext-.
And if you have a movie trilogy, and one more move comes out, it becomes a tetralogy, and not a quadrilogy, also because of Greek etymology:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetralogy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetralogy