Kilo Mega Giga Exa Tera...??

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March 8th, 2001, 08:26 PM
Jediab

Kilo Mega Giga Exa Tera...??

Hello all!

This is a questions more so for a math major then us computer techies, but since we deal closely with the bytes = whatever number, someone might know this one.

Ok here we go and never mind the actual number i.e 1024kb = 1MB;

Ok as we all know

Kilobyte is 1000 bytes (one thousand)
Megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes (one million)
Gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes (one billion)
Terabyte is 1,000,000,000,000 bytes (one trillion)
Exabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes (one WHAT?)

What is the real number for Exabyte? Zillon is not a number. Gazillion is not either.

Does anyone know what it is?

I would love to find out

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Thanks all!
March 8th, 2001, 08:27 PM
Darren Wilson

I would hazard a guess at Quadrillion https://forums.windrivers.com/

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March 8th, 2001, 08:47 PM
CiscoGuy

As Darren has said, it is known as a Quadrillion in the US.

In England it is called a Thousand Billion.

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March 8th, 2001, 08:53 PM
Jediab

Quadrillion? OK that sounds familuar. Do you have a point of reference on that? Its not that I dont believe you, I just want to look it up for myself and see what might be the number after that (besides quadrillion and one)

Thanks!
March 8th, 2001, 08:56 PM
furlong47

Sounds like CiscoGuy looked the same place as me:

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/...e.numbers.html

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March 8th, 2001, 09:06 PM
Jediab

SWEET! This is cool! Thanks all!
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March 8th, 2001, 10:08 PM
CiscoGuy

Quote:

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by furlong47:
Sounds like CiscoGuy looked the same place as me:

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/...e.numbers.html

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Darn, I was found out.

Of course I used google.com to find the answer.

https://forums.windrivers.com/

[This message has been edited by CiscoGuy (edited March 08, 2001).]