Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Sun, 15 Aug 1993 20:35:55 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Sun, 15 Aug 1993 20:35:43 -0400 Message-Id: <199308160035.AA01304@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7051; Sun, 15 Aug 93 20:34:37 EDT Received: from YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@YALEVM) by YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU (LMail V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 2894; Sun, 15 Aug 1993 20:34:37 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1993 20:33:59 -0400 Reply-To: Rob Brady Sender: Lojban list From: Rob Brady Subject: TECH: Bytes and bits X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: O X-Status: X-From-Space-Date: Sun Aug 15 16:33:59 1993 X-From-Space-Address: @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET I also forgot samkilto - skami kilto - computer K (1024, or 400 hex) my computer has 64K similarly, samymegdo - - computer M (1024*1024=1048576, or 100000 hex) - as in 4Megs and, samgigdo - - G samterto - - T The letters are standard, lowercase for metric, uppercase for computerese. I've yet to hear anyone speak of petabytes, but when they do I'm sure you will figure out how to make the word. I did not include the concept of 'byte' within these words as it is in standard english because they do not always refer to bytes in skami prenu se bangu. Specifically Kbits and Kunspecified (as in, this counter overflows at 64K - what it is counting is unimportant)