I'm fully aware this will never take off and I'm shouting into the wind, but wouldn't it be convenient to match up our decimal numbers to our file sizes?
New Term | Equivalent | Old Term |
---|---|---|
1 byte | 1 byte | 1 byte |
1 kilobyte | 1,000 bytes | 1 kilobyte |
1 millibyte | 1,000,000 bytes | 1 megabyte |
1 billibyte | 1,000,000,000 bytes | 1 gigabyte |
1 trillibyte | 1,000,000,000,000 bytes | 1 terabyte |
1 quadrillibyte | 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes | 1 petabyte |
1 quintillibyte | 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes | 1 exabyte |
... and so on.