event nomencalture

[Just a cacher]

I don't think the Americans really care whether the name is correct or not. I believe that's where the term originated (for caching, I mean).
I think it would be an excellent idea to call events by their proper names, but I can't see it happening, unfortunately.

[caughtatwork]

A Deca would be 10
A Hecta would be 100
A Kilo would be 1,000 (or 1,024 being 2^10 in geek speak)
A Mega would be 1,000,000 or (1,048,576 or 2^20)
A Giga would be 1,000,000,000 or (1,073,741,824 or 2^30)
A Terra event would be every human on Terra

[Laighside Legends]

...and nanos would be no more than 0.001mm (a micro) tall...

[CraigRat]

I'm gonna see if we can manage a Hecta -event on the coast later this year!
a hundred people at an event... that would be Mega ( i mean Hecta)

If you made it a GCA event we could make it a Mega

Might upset some folks though...........

[caughtatwork]

We can have Mega events, Giga events, Terra events, whatever the hell we feel like making. They take about two minutes to set up in the system. The icon is the hardest part

[Rabbitto]

A Terra event would be every human on Terra

Terra-bull

[lemmykc]

Complaining I see again Pesky?

[gmj3191]

It's funny how things work.
I lived in Sydney between 1973 and 1988, and was very much aware of the Megalong Valley near Katoomba in the Blue Mountains.
We were up that way a few weeks ago and it struck me for the first time that it is a very ironic name, the Mega-long Valley, meaning very long.

Of course this would have nothing to do with how it was originally named but it just exemplifies the way words have different meanings and emphasis over time.
I'm sure today's teenagers (and Pesky) probably immediately think it's called Megalong because it's a very long valley.