Quote from: roy on May 13, 2011, 03:21:49 AM

So do you use kilo/hecto/mega to describe bitcoin amounts?
It's currently a mishmash, no?

No. Read the previous posts. It's centi, milli, and micro. (And nano, if we ever start trading in values less than a factor of 10^-8, or "1 satoshi.")

As an aside, I don't have any issues with saying "1 satoshi" instead of "10 nanocoins" for 10^-8 bitcoins as there is no prefix in the metric system to correspond with that factor. But as I see it, why try to come up with a new system or alter the already established system in our nascent community to solve the unwieldiness of writing things like 0.00000001 BTC when there's already a perfectly good solution that has not only proven itself in other areas where exact measurement is necessary, but which is also already in widespread usage? Bitcoin already faces enough challenges to its adoption without us infighting and fabricating new ones.