2020 Jun

3rd month of the 2nd quarter of the 31st year of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer-Trump economic depression

updated: 2020-04-20
 

2020 Jun

3rd month of the 2nd quarter of the 31st year of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer-Trump economic depression

Except that computer people use 2 as a base raised to multiples of powers of 10, instead of 10 raised to multiples of powers of 3 because powers of 2 are handier for them, but they also want to stay somewhat close to the values of 10 most folks are used to.

1,024	K	kilo- (kibi-)	2^10
1,048,576	M	mega- (mebi-)	2^20
1,073,741,824	G	giga- (gibi-)	2^30
1,099,511,627,776	T	tera- (tebi-)	2^40
1,125,899,906,842,624	P	peta- (pebi-)	2^50
1,152,921,504,606,846,976	E	exa- (exbi-)	2^60
1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424	Z	zetta- (zebi-)	2^70
1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176	Y	yotta- (yobi-)	2^80

An alternate set of prefixes has been proposed.