A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems

[Chuck Guzis]

On 7/27/2006 at 11:58 AM Roy J. Tellason wrote:

>> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

Yech!

Maybe someone's not addressing the right problem.  One of the problems with
verbalizing scientific notation is the clumsiness of saying "itimes 10 to
the". or "times 2 to the".    I hereby propose a new pair of words, "tep"
and "bip" for "times 10 to the" and "times 2 to the".  So instead of saying
"sixty-five k", you can now say "sixty-five tep three" with absolutely no
abiguity.   If you want the base-2 version, you could say "sixty-four bip
ten".

Just kidding,
Chuck