The Byte Scale
- [Working together as a “virtual telescope,” observatories around the world produce first direct images of a black hole = the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)]
The Byte Scale
This is an intuitive look at large data sizes:
- Bytes(8 Bits)
- Kilobyte (1000 Bytes) (or 103 Bytes)
- Megabyte (1 000 000 Bytes) (or 106 Bytes)
- Gigabyte (1 000 000 000 Bytes) (or 109 Bytes)
- Terabyte (1 000 000 000 000 Bytes) (or 1012 Bytes)
- Petabyte (1 000 000 000 000 000 Bytes) (or 1015 Bytes)
- Exabyte (1 000 000 000 000 000 000 Bytes) (or 1018 Bytes)
- Zettabyte (1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 Bytes) (or 1021 Bytes)
- Yottabyte (1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 Bytes) (or 1024 Bytes)
- Xenottabyte (1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 Bytes) (or 1027 Bytes)
- Shilentnobyte (1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 Bytes) (or 1030 Bytes)
- Domegemegrottebyte (1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 Bytes) (or 1033 Bytes)
Note: The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The International System of Units (SI) defines the prefix kilo as 1000 (10**3); per this definition, one kilobyte is 1000 bytes.In historical usage in some areas of information technology, particularly in reference to digital memory capacity, kilobytedenotes 1024 (2**10) bytes.
8 bits = 1 byte
1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte
1024 kilobytes = 1 megabyte
1024 megabytes = 1 gigabyte
1024 gigabytes = 1 terabyte
1024 terabytes = 1 petabyte
1024 petabytes = 1 exabyte
1024 exabytes = 1 zettabyte
1024 zettabytes = 1 yottabyte
1024 yottabytes - 1 xenottabyte
1024 xenottabytes = 1 shilentnobyte
1024 shilentnobytes = 1 domegemegrottebyte
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