Lots of Bits and Bytes
March 18, 2013When you start talking about lots of bytes, you get into prefixes like kilo, mega and giga, as in kilobyte, megabyte and gigabyte (also shortened to K, M and G, as in Kbytes, Mbytes and Gbytes or KB, MB and GB). The following table shows the multipliers:
|
Name |
Abbr. |
Size |
|
Kilo |
K |
2^10 = 1,024 |
|
Mega |
M |
2^20 = 1,048,576 |
|
Giga |
G |
2^30 = 1,073,741,824 |
|
Tera |
T |
2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 |
|
Peta |
P |
2^50 = 1,125,899,906,842,624 |
|
Exa |
E |
2^60 = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 |
|
Zetta |
Z |
2^70 = 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 |
|
Yotta |
Y |
2^80 = 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 |
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