Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/28
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At 02:16 PM 11/28/97, Bill wrote:
>
>So what's the next word after terabyte (1000 terabytes)? My vote is for
>gazigabyte, but I'm sure someone already has something more technical and
>rational -- and boring -- ready to go. Anyone? (I've been asking my
>computer science colleagues for a while, and no one has had an answer yet.)
>
Bill,
The answer is very simple...
For thjose who want to know the powers of ten nomenclature... here it is:
S P A C E - Bits or bytes
Power of 10
Kilo (K) Thousand 3
Mega (M) Million 6
Giga (G) Billion 9
Tera (T) Trillion 12
Peta (P) Quadrillion 15
Exa (E) Quintillion 18
Zetta (Z) Sextillion 21
Yotta (Y) Septillion 24
T I M E - Fraction of second
Power of 10
Millisecond (ms) Thousandth -3
Microsecond (aes) Millionth -6
Nanosecond (ns) Billionth -9
Picosecond (ps) Trillionth -12
Femtosecond (fs) Quadrillionth -15
Attosecond (as) Quintillionth -18
Zeposecond (zs) Sextillionth -21
Yoctosecond (ys) Septillionth -24
Storage/channel capacity measured in:
CPU word size Bits
Bus size Bits
Disk, tape Bytes
MEMORY
overall capacity Bytes
SIMM or SIP module Bytes
Individual chip Bits