Kibibyte is a common term now for 1024 bytes. So, I take the nanometer, and declare the nabimeter to be 1/(1024)^3 meters. The nabimeter is here! The motivation for this is that computers already use binary floating point (not decimal). This leads to a lot of misconceptions.

you mean a kilobyte, right? A kilobyte is 1024 bytes. This is what is commonly understood by 'kilobyte'.

See http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=defin...G=Google+Search

A kilobyte is 1000 bytes. A kibibyte is 1024 bytes. A pedantic geek will beat this into you repeatedly.

pedantic geeks notwithstanding, it is commonly understood in the context of computer science that a kilobyte refers to 1024 bytes. Look in any computer science textbook. Or look at your computer's hard drive specifications. Yes I know kilo- means a thousand, in general, but a kilobyte is an exception due to the centrality of binary coding and base 2.

Thus...the kibibyte.

The meter is a unit of length. What dimensional value (purpose) does this nabimeter [1/(1024)^3 meters]have? Or should we have a name for every increment of one?