Assertion: prefix | /r/HasProperty | abandoned
Facets:
value: altogether
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Bruce Alan Martin of Brookhaven National Laboratory further proposed that the prefixes be abandoned altogether, and the letter B be used for base-2 exponents, similar to E in decimal scientific notation, to create shorthands like 3B20 for 3×220, a convention still used on some calculators to present binary floating point-numbers today.
text: Bruce Alan Martin of Brookhaven National Laboratory further proposed that the prefixes be abandoned altogether, and the letter B be used to indicate a base-2 exponent in binary scientific notation, similar to E in decimal scientific notation, to create shorthands like 3B20 for 3×220 = 3 MiB