Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/28

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Subject: Re: Giga, Trea, and beyond
From: "Jacques Bilinski" <jbilin@axionet.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 19:41:25 -0800

> >So what's the next word after terabyte (1000 terabytes)? 
>                        Power of 10
> Kilo	(K)	Thousand	3
> Mega	(M)	Million	6
> Giga	(G)	Billion	9
> Tera	(T)	Trillion	12
> Peta	(P)	Quadrillion	15

Just to be argumentative, I always thought that a kilobyte was 1024 bytes
or 2**10 bytes, so doesn't that mean that a terabyte is 2**40 bytes which
is more like 1.10 * 10**12 bytes?