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| Mathematical Power |
Name |
| 10ˆ18 or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 |
one quintillion |
| 10ˆ15 or 1,000,000,000,000,000 |
one quadrillion |
| 10ˆ12 or 1,000,000,000,000 |
one trillion |
| 10ˆ9 or 1,000,000,000 |
one billion |
| 10ˆ6 or 1,000,000 |
one million |
| 10ˆ3 or 1,000 |
one thousand |
| 10ˆ2 or 100 |
one hundred |
| 10ˆ1 or 10 |
ten |
| 10ˆ0 or 1 |
one |
| 10ˆ-1 or 0.1 |
one-tenth |
| 10ˆ-2 or 0.01 |
one-hundredth |
| 10ˆ-3 or 0.001 |
one-thousandth |
| 10ˆ-6 or 0.000 001 |
one-millionth |
| 10ˆ-9 or 0.000 000 001 |
one-billionth |
| 10ˆ-12 or 0.000 000 000 001 |
one-trillionth |
| 10ˆ-15 or 0.000 000 000 000
001 |
one-quadrillionth |
| 10ˆ-18 or 0.000 000 000 000
000 001 |
one-quintillionth |
| Orders of Magnitude - Digital Data |
Bit:
An eighth of a byte |
This
is the smallest fundamental size of data storage. It is a binary
digit meaning that it can take the value of either 1 or 0. All
computer data can be broken down to a string of these 1 and
0. When represented as a string it is called binary code.
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| Byte: 8 Bits |
A
single byte stores eight bits, eight 1's or 0's. This octet
of bits is the smallest unit for a base 1,000 order of magnitude
naming system as follows:
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| Kilobyte: |
1
thousand or, 1,000 bytes |
| Megabyte: |
1
million, or 1,000,000 bytes |
| Gigabyte: |
1
billion, or 1,000,000,000 bytes |
| Terabyte: |
1
trillion, or 1,000,000,000,0000 bytes |
| Petabye: |
1
quadrillion, or 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes |
| Exabyte: |
1
quintillion, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes |
| Zettabyte: |
1
sextillion or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 |
| Yottabyte: |
1
septillion, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes |
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