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Prefix Symbol Factor Power tera T 1 000 000 000 000: 10 12: giga G 1 000 000 000: 10 9: mega M 1 000 000: 10 6: kilo k 1 000: 10 3: hecto h 100 10 2: deca da 10 10 1 (none) (none) 1 10 0: deci d 0.1 10 −1 ...
In the context of computing, the metric prefixes are often intended to mean something other than their normal meaning. For example, a kilobyte is actually 1024 bytes even though the standard meaning of kilo is 1000. And, mega normally means one million, but in computing is often used to mean 2 20 = 1 048 576. The table below illustrates the ...
The prefixes from tera-to quetta-are based on the Ancient Greek or Ancient Latin numbers from 4 to 10, referring to the 4th through 10th powers of 10 3. The initial letter h has been removed from some of these stems and the initial letters z , y , r , and q have been added, ascending in reverse alphabetical order, to avoid confusion with other ...
The byte has been a commonly used unit of measure for much of the information age to refer to a number of bits.In the early days of computing, it was used for differing numbers of bits based on convention and computer hardware design, but today means 8 bits.
giga-(GW) 1.3 × 10 9. tech: electric power output of Manitoba Hydro Limestone hydroelectric generating station 2.074 × 10 9: tech: peak power generation of Hoover Dam: 2.1 × 10 9: tech: peak power generation of Aswan Dam: 3.4 × 10 9: tech: estimated power consumption of the Bitcoin network in 2017 [29] 4.116 × 10 9
An alternative system is found in Amendment 2 to IEC 60027‑2: Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology - Part 2: Prefixes for binary multipliers _____ Factor Name Symbol Origin Derivation 210 kibi Ki kilo + binary: (210)1 = 1 024 kilo: (103)1 220 mebi Mi mega + binary: (210)2 = 1 048 576 mega: (103)2 230 gibi Gi giga + binary: (210 ...
According to these standards, kilo, mega, giga, et seq. should only be used in the decimal sense, even when referring to data storage capacities: kilobyte and megabyte denote one thousand and one million bytes respectively (consistent with the metric system), while terms such as kibibyte, mebibyte and gibibyte, with symbols KiB, MiB and GiB ...