Word of the day: yottabyte

[RC]

http://www.wordspy.com/words/yottabyte.asp

PREFIX POWER UNITS NUMBER
OF 10
kilo- 3 thousands 1,000
mega- 6 millions 1,000,000
giga- 9 billions 1,000,000,000
tera- 12 trillions 1,000,000,000,000
peta- 15 quadrillions 1,000,000,000,000,000
exa- 18 quintillions 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
zetta- 21 sextillions 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
yotta- 24 septillions 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Must have something to do with the number of lies that have come out of the White House since 1/6/2001, ya think?
Anyway, it's a lot.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Yatta! Yatta! Yatta!

http://web.mit.edu/patil/www/media/video/yatta.asf

[dolo amber]

2. Is that more

or less than a "buttload"? :shrug:

:D

[GOPisEvil]

3. A metric fuckload.

*thanks SOteric*

[dolo amber]

4. HA!

Good one! :D

My friends and I once defined a buttload as "An amount exceeding any amount you would ever possibly need". I thought that was fairly apt. ;)

[TXlib]

6. *giggle*

I remember that.

I asked her how a metric fuckload differed from a british fuckload.

[BlueEyedSon]

5. In case that's not stupid enough for ya

http://web.mit.edu/patil/www/media/video/yatta%20(economy).swf

[TXlib]

7. when did they come up with those prefixes?

The highest I've ever seen before was exa-

[RC]

8. The name yotta

was chosen because it's the second-to-last last letter of the Latin alphabet and also sounds like the Greek letter iota.