BINARY POWERS OF 10
I heard an interesting phrase on television "petabyte" that caught my attention so I searched for the term.
I found this table of Binary Powers of 10 that explains the evolution of our memory requirements.
We start off with the basic unit of memory as 1 bit that converts to 0.125 bytes.
1 byte = 1 character
1 kilobyte = 1,024 bytes
1 megabyte = 1,048,576 bytes (million)
1 gigabyte = 1,073,741,824 bytes (billion)
1 terabyte = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes or 1,024 gigabytes
1 petabyte = 1 quadrillion bytes or 1,000 terabytes
1 exabyte = 1,000 petabytes (5 exabytes stores all words ever spoken by humans)
1 zettabyte = 1,000 exabytes
1 yottabyte = 1,000 zettabytes
1 xonabyte = 1,000 xonabytes
1 wekabyte = 1,000 xonabytes
1 vundabyte = 1,000 wekabytes
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