Giga + Tera
Is it just me, or does it annoy you when, a presumably competent reporter, writing for a competent and reliable site (LiveScience - a fantastic source of science news), writing about the data aspects of high energy particle physics, proceeds to insist that a "terabyte" is equivalent to "one million gigabytes"?
(Article:
LiveScience: http://www.livescience.com/technology/080411-bts-lhc-cms.html
Yahoo News Mirror: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080412/sc_livescience/physicistsgearupforhugedataflow
Line: "Because the LHC will produce so much data, the terabyte, or a million gigabytes, is the standard unit of data among scientists involved with LHC computing.")
... 1 TB is 1000 GB. Much like 1 GB is 1000 MB. Etc. (And no, I don't care about "*bi-bytes", "kibibyte" is just odd.)
... I have a mental picture of Dr. Evil demanding storage space: "And, lastly, I demand one million gigabytes!".
(Article:
LiveScience: http://www.livescience.com/technology/080411-bts-lhc-cms.html
Yahoo News Mirror: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080412/sc_livescience/physicistsgearupforhugedataflow
Line: "Because the LHC will produce so much data, the terabyte, or a million gigabytes, is the standard unit of data among scientists involved with LHC computing.")
... 1 TB is 1000 GB. Much like 1 GB is 1000 MB. Etc. (And no, I don't care about "*bi-bytes", "kibibyte" is just odd.)
... I have a mental picture of Dr. Evil demanding storage space: "And, lastly, I demand one million gigabytes!".