Comments on: Enter The Yottabyte – One Billion Petabytes! http://singularityhub.com/2009/11/03/enter-the-yottabyte-one-billion-petabytes/ The Future Is Here Today...Robotics, Genetics, AI, Longevity, The Brain... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:53:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Keith Kleiner http://singularityhub.com/2009/11/03/enter-the-yottabyte-one-billion-petabytes/comment-page-1/#comment-9999 Keith Kleiner Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:14:40 +0000 http://singularityhub.com/?p=8899#comment-9999 Just wait until we have a mole of yottabytes! Just wait until we have a mole of yottabytes!

]]> By: DC Palmer http://singularityhub.com/2009/11/03/enter-the-yottabyte-one-billion-petabytes/comment-page-1/#comment-9991 DC Palmer Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:05:50 +0000 http://singularityhub.com/?p=8899#comment-9991 Thanks for your reply. I taught high school math for a while. As I think about it more, I am struck by the fact that 10^24 is an interger and that when we refer to a "yottaByte" we are referring to a collection that we are actually able to count. The number 6.0221415 x 10^23 is an approximate value derived from measurement that I always assumed was uncountably large in any practical sense. When the day comes that we can actually count a collection of anything larger than a mole, we should notice it as being an historically significant event in human history. We should drop "Yotta" and instead use the term "Mola" as the pefix for 10^24. Molabyte. A CPU with 3 Molaprocessors. Pi calculated to 100 Moladigits. Thanks for your reply. I taught high school math for a while.

As I think about it more, I am struck by the fact that 10^24 is an interger and that when we refer to a “yottaByte” we are referring to a collection that we are actually able to count. The number 6.0221415 x 10^23 is an approximate value derived from measurement that I always assumed was uncountably large in any practical sense. When the day comes that we can actually count a collection of anything larger than a mole, we should notice it as being an historically significant event in human history.

We should drop “Yotta” and instead use the term “Mola” as the pefix for 10^24. Molabyte. A CPU with 3 Molaprocessors. Pi calculated to 100 Moladigits.

]]> By: Paul Jones http://singularityhub.com/2009/11/03/enter-the-yottabyte-one-billion-petabytes/comment-page-1/#comment-9898 Paul Jones Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:53:35 +0000 http://singularityhub.com/?p=8899#comment-9898 This is not the purpose of a republic. This is not the purpose of a republic.

]]> By: Keith Kleiner http://singularityhub.com/2009/11/03/enter-the-yottabyte-one-billion-petabytes/comment-page-1/#comment-9895 Keith Kleiner Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:25:38 +0000 http://singularityhub.com/?p=8899#comment-9895 Ha ha! As a former high school chemistry teacher I can certainly appreciate that Ha ha! As a former high school chemistry teacher I can certainly appreciate that

]]> By: DC Palmer http://singularityhub.com/2009/11/03/enter-the-yottabyte-one-billion-petabytes/comment-page-1/#comment-9894 DC Palmer Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:14:30 +0000 http://singularityhub.com/?p=8899#comment-9894 Why not just call it a "Mole?" A mole of bytes! Why not just call it a “Mole?” A mole of bytes!

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