yotta

Before the official adoption of the yotta prefix, the multiple was also known as otta.

A preliminary name of the yotta SI unit prefix.

The letters z and y in the existing prefixes zepto, yocto and zetta, yotta suggest the start of a series backwards through the alphabet.

A proposed name for 9-polytope is polyyotton (plural: polyyotta), created from poly-, yotta- (a variation on octa, meaning eight) and -on.

Yi, the abbreviation of the binary prefix "yobi-", representing 2, the equivalent of the decimal prefix "yotta-" (Y)

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The relative difference between the values in the binary and decimal interpretations increases, when using the SI prefixes as the base, from 2.4% for kilo to nearly 21% for the yotta prefix.

The prefix yotta indicates the eighth power of 1000 and means 10 in the International System of Units (SI), and therefore one yottabyte is one septillion (one long scale quadrillion) bytes.

While the numerical difference between the decimal and binary interpretations is relatively small for the prefixes kilo and mega, it grows to over 20% for prefix yotta, illustrated in the linear-log graph (at right) of difference versus storage size.

Perhaps you recall TV's Jerry Seinfeld saying, "Yotta, yotta, yotta," rooted in Lenny Bruce's yadda-yadda-yadda in the 60's, to indicate an interminable continuation of blather.