Re: Units of measure

On 13 Nov 98, at 12:29, Matthew Atkinson wrote: <WEEKEND MODE> > Albert et al., > > I'm afraid your units aren't quite right: > > A Terabyte (with only 1 'r') is 1024 GB, or 2^40 bytes > A Petabyte is 1024TB, or 2^50 bytes > An Exabyte (without the 'h') is 1024PB, or 2^60 bytes *I* thought an Exabyte was a backup device. Har-de-har-har... :-) > Just for interest, and perhaps for the future (!?) a Zettabyte > is 1024EB or 2^70 bytes, and a Yottabyte is 1024ZB or 2^80 bytes. How can a Zettabyte come before a Yottabyte? :-) </WEEKEND MODE> -- Ciao, Billy /Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za \\ Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ / \\ "Granted, Mr Wheeler's ideas are stupid and unreasonable, but he does own the company and I / think we should go along with him..." \\________________________________________________________________________________________________