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by xapata 914 days ago
> Two of the suggestions made were brontobyte (from 'brontosaurus') and hellabyte (from 'hell of a big number'). (Indeed, the Google unit converter function was already stating '1 hellabyte = 1000 yottabytes' [6].) This introduced a new driver for extending the range of SI prefixes: ensuring unofficial names did not get adopted de facto.

Rats. So close!