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Kind of sounds like one of those cluster forks you read about sometimes :biggrin:
 
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Gokul43201 said:
Well, 'terra' actually means 'ground' or 'land'. :wink:

It's 'tera' which is 1000 times bigger than 'giga'!

Tera means Earth not ground ;) and its Latin not greek

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_(mythology )

Tera is greek (enna dio tri tessera (τετρα) penti hexi hepta.. etc etc)τετρα is similar to tera I suppose
 
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