| Author | Message | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Thing | 1 exabyte = 1.1529215 × 10^18 bytes | April 30, 2004, 2:10 PM |
| Yoni | http://yoni.valhallalegends.com/stuff/bytesize.txt I wrote this 2 years ago for reference (file was dated 2002-06-21 on my HD). | April 30, 2004, 3:43 PM |
| Thing | That's why I'm saving up to be Jewish! :) | April 30, 2004, 6:11 PM |
| Yoni | Btw, there's an extremely common misconception about unit prefixes. The prefix "kilo" means 1000, "mega" means 1000000, etc. (10^n where n is in increments of 3). Therefore, kilobyte = 1000 bytes, megabytes = 1000000 bytes, etc., even though most people think otherwise. The correct prefixes are ones ending in "bi" (probably meaning "binary"). For instance, 1 kibibyte = 1024 bytes, 1 mebibyte = 1048576 bytes, etc. (2^n where n is in increments of 10). BitTorrent for instance doesn't make this mistake (the download and upload speeds are given in "KiB/s", not "KB/s", at least in the version I have installed) but everything else does including Google (probably due to the popularity of the misconception): http://www.google.com/search?q=1+petabyte+in+bytes http://www.google.com/search?q=1+petameter+in+meters | April 30, 2004, 6:54 PM |
| Adron | Or, due to kilobyte being 1024 bytes for a very long time, until the committee decided to make a separate name for 1024 bytes... | May 1, 2004, 12:52 AM |
| Thing | [quote author=Adron link=board=36;threadid=6575;start=0#msg57810 date=1083372757] Or, due to kilobyte being 1024 bytes for a very long time, until the committee decided to make a separate name for 1024 bytes... [/quote] That's the way I learned it in skool. | May 1, 2004, 2:18 AM |
| Yoni | Eh, "live in the now!" | May 1, 2004, 12:22 PM |