Re: In case you were wondering,"what comes after the Terabyte?"
Peter Pan wrote:
> 8 bits = 1 Byte
>
> What comes after the Byte ?
> 1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
>
> What comes after the kilobyte ?
> 1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
>
> What comes after the Megabyte ?
> 1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
>
> What comes after the Gigabytes ?
> 1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
>
> What comes after the Terabytes?
> 1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
>
> What comes after the Petabytes ?
> 1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
>
> What comes after the Exabyte ?
> 1024 Exabyte = 1 zettabyte
>
> What comes after the zettabyte ?
> 1024 zettabyte = 1 Yottabyte
>
>
That is wrong, but common. 1KByte is 1,000 Bytes; etc.
For educational purposes, see:
Re: In case you were wondering,"what comes after the Terabyte?"
> What comes after the Byte ?
> 1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
Yes.
> What comes after the kilobyte ?
> 1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
No, but that's a common mistake. 1024k is 1 mebibyte, where the 'bi'
indicates use of binary math. Likewise on upward for gebi, tebi, pebi, exbi
and, presumably, yebi and zebi.
Re: In case you were wondering,"what comes after the Terabyte?"
> That is wrong, but common. 1KByte is 1,000 Bytes; etc.
You are incorrect. 1KByte has always been about 1024 bytes. Now, the
larger disk drives have gotten, the more they want to use base 10
calculations where 1MB = 1,000,000 bytes. Yes, this is problematic as some
(most?) operating systems still use mulitples of 1024 for megabyte
calculations. THAT is 'incorrect' but it's a legacy annoyance, as is the
historical usage of kilobyte = 1024.
>8 bits = 1 Byte
>
>What comes after the Byte ?
>1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
>
>What comes after the kilobyte ?
>1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
(...)
If only life were so simple. See:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix>
and from the NIST, we have:
<http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html>
<http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html>
Of course, standards are made to be broken:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-SI_unit_prefix>
For entertainment value, try using these:
2 bits: crumb, quad, quarter, tayste, tydbit
4 bits: nibble, nybble
5 bits: nickle, nyckle
10 bits: deckle
16 bits: plate, playte, chomp, chawmp (on a 32-bit machine)
18 bits: chomp, chawmp (on a 36-bit machine)
32 bits: dinner, dynner, gawble (on a 32-bit machine)
48 bits: gobble, gawble (under circumstances that remain obscure)
I once proposed the pseudobyte as equal to 1012 bytes. That's the
arithmetic average of 1000 bits and 1024 bits, which should serve as a
suitable compromise value thus satisfying both camps. It was
summarily rejected as counterproductive by all that took me seriously.
It also gets ugly with speed abreviations, such as Bps, bps,
Bytes/sec, bits/sec, etc. I won't go there and simply suggest that
one should not abrev.
Re: In case you were wondering,"what comes after the Terabyte?"
Bob Willard wrote:
> Peter Pan wrote:
>> What comes after the Byte ?
>> 1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
>
> That is wrong, but common. 1KByte is 1,000 Bytes; etc.
This statement is also wrong, but common.
In fact /both/ are correct.
Re: In case you were wondering,"what comes after the Terabyte?"
Bill Kearney wrote:
>
> No, but that's a common mistake. 1024k is 1 mebibyte, where the 'bi'
> indicates use of binary math. Likewise on upward for gebi, tebi, pebi,
> exbi and, presumably, yebi and zebi.
This is a modern invention, written by the committee that invented the
camel, in order to 'deobfuscate' something that wasn't actually
complicated in the first place.
Re: In case you were wondering,"what comes after the Terabyte?"
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:35:24 +0000, Mark McIntyre
<markmcintyre@spamcop.net> wrote:
>Yeah, we all know what the ISO standard is, and hands up any /real/
>human that uses kibi, mibi etc.
I did, once, and only once. It was in a performance test report,
where the use was appropriate. However, nobody could figure out what
I was talking about or knew what a mibibyte was, so I revised it back
to the common usage, tweaked the numbers, and never made that mistake
again.
Re: In case you were wondering,"what comes after the Terabyte?"
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:27:02 GMT, Jeff Liebermann
<jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:
>On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:35:24 +0000, Mark McIntyre
><markmcintyre@spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>>Yeah, we all know what the ISO standard is, and hands up any /real/
>>human that uses kibi, mibi etc.
Ummm... It's kebi (KiB), mebi (Mib), etc.
As usual, the abrevs make no sense and are guaranteed to confuse.
Re: In case you were wondering,"what comes after the Terabyte?"
In article <jdadnRrpEcAfdVbanZ2dnUVZ_o3inZ2d@comcast.com>, Bob Willard <BobwBSGS@TrashThis.comcast.net> wrote:
>Peter Pan wrote:
>> 8 bits = 1 Byte
>>
>> What comes after the Byte ?
>> 1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
>>
>> What comes after the kilobyte ?
>> 1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
>>
>> What comes after the Megabyte ?
>> 1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
>>
>> What comes after the Gigabytes ?
>> 1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
>>
>> What comes after the Terabytes?
>> 1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
>>
>> What comes after the Petabytes ?
>> 1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
>>
>> What comes after the Exabyte ?
>> 1024 Exabyte = 1 zettabyte
>>
>> What comes after the zettabyte ?
>> 1024 zettabyte = 1 Yottabyte
>>
>>
>
>That is wrong, but common. 1KByte is 1,000 Bytes; etc.
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