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When finished, the facility will be able to handle a large amount of information collected by the NSA over the Internet. The exact amount of storage space is unknown, but more recent sources claim it will be on the order of a few exabytes. [133] [134] [135] This has posed security concerns regarding the anonymity of the data collected. [136]
Presumably from the practice, in counting sheep or large herds of cattle, of counting orally from one to twenty, and making a score or notch on a stick, before proceeding to count the next twenty. [3] [4] A distance of twenty yards in ancient archery and gunnery. [5] Threescore: 60 Three score (3x20) Large: 1,000 Slang for one thousand Myriad ...
In addition, business and government organizations create large amounts of both structured and unstructured information, which need to be processed, analyzed, and linked. Vinton Cerf described this as an “information avalanche” and stated, “we must harness the Internet’s energy before the information it has unleashed buries us”. [2]
Burkeman in his article talks about the feeling of being in control is the way to deal with information overload which might involve self-deception. He advises to fight irrationality with irrationality by using add-ons that allow you to pause your inbox or produce other results. Reducing large amounts of information is key.
A very large database, (originally written very large data base) or VLDB, [1] is a database that contains a very large amount of data, so much that it can require specialized architectural, management, processing and maintenance methodologies. [2] [3] [4] [5]
In particular, if b is a positive integer, then the unit is the amount of information that can be stored in a system with b possible states. When b is 2, the unit is the shannon, equal to the information content of one "bit". A system with 8 possible states, for example, can store up to log 2 8 = 3 bits of information. Other units that have ...
In Hebrew and other Middle Eastern traditions, the number 40 is used to express a large but unspecific number, [24] [22] as in the Hebrew Bible's "forty days and forty nights", Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste. [25] [26] This usage is sometimes found in English as well (for example, "forty winks"). [27] [28]
the term row has several common synonyms (e.g., record, k-tuple, n-tuple, vector); the term column has several common synonyms (e.g., field, parameter, property, attribute, stanchion); a column is usually identified by a name; a column name can consist of a word, phrase or a numerical index; the intersection of a row and a column is called a cell.