Kees Hartley

A New Byte System

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.

How?

Why?