> Good description in the table, is there nothing like a nanobit or > nanobyte? And my engineering friends are all throwing the qubit around, > without describing it. A qubit is a quantum bit, http://www.sciam.com/1999/0899issue/0899scicit5.html , bad choice of abbreviation IMHO, sounds too much like a cubit (or was Noah building a Quantum Ark :-) ) Garry