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Tons of Bytes

May 4, 2009

Lots of Bytes
When 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