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How Big is That?
Ever hear somebody mention the size of a file in bytes, K, meg, or gigabytes and wonder how really big that file is?
Here are the definitions of each of these:
| Kilobyte | Same as | Bytes |
| byte | 8 bits | 1 |
| kilobyte | 1,024 bytes | 1,024 |
| megabyte | 1,024 kilobytes | 1,048,576 |
| gigabyte | 1,024 megabytes | 1,073,741,824 |
| terabyte | 1,024 gigabytes | 1,099,511,627,776 |
| petabyte | 1,024 terabytes | 1,125,899,906,842,624 |
| exabyte | 1,024 petabytes | 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 |
| zettabyte | 1,024 exabytes | 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 |
| yottabyte | 1,024 zettabytes | 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 |
Which reminds me of a poem I just wrote:
THE YOTTABYTE
the yottabyte, is a lotta byte
the biggest of all the prefix
and to think! the biggest is just
1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176!
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