scott wrote:

> And you were never curious as to why you never saw any amounts between 
> $999m and $999999m written anywhere?  Anyway, you know now :-)

Well, actually a never read the kind of material where you might ever 
see such numbers at all, so... ;-)

I think "million" and "billion" already sound way too similar for 
numbers of vastly different sizes. Most people really don't notice the 
difference between them.

I figure that's why nobody talks about "seventeen billion bytes". If you 
said "seventeen million bytes", nobody would notice the difference very 
much. That's why most people call it 17 GB and 17 MB. [Ah, but is that 
2^10 or 20^3??]

I wonder what the hell people will call it when 4 terabyte drives become 
common. MB => meg, GB => gig, TB => ???

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