/dev/random: Smarter-Than-You Storage.
Robert G. Ferrell · ;login:: the magazine of USENIX & SAGE · 2015
Recently I had the honor of serving as a member of a teaching and volunteer examiner team for an amateur radio licensing class/exam. One of the lessons in the class went over exponent prefixes, from yocto- to yotta-. I mentioned to the students that giga-, tera-, peta-, and exa-, while virtually unknown to non-scientists two decades ago, had now entered into the general parlance as a result of developments in digital memory and storage technologies.