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  2. Orders of magnitude (mass) - Wikipedia

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    However, the names of all SI mass units are based on gram, rather than on kilogram; thus 10 3 kg is a megagram (10 6 g), not a *kilokilogram. The tonne (t) is an SI-compatible unit of mass equal to a megagram (Mg), or 10 3 kg. The unit is in common use for masses above about 10 3 kg and is often used with SI prefixes.

  3. Pica (typography) - Wikipedia

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    The contemporary computer PostScript pica is exactly 1 ⁄ 6 of an inch or 1 ⁄ 72 of a foot, i.e. 4.2 3 mm or 0.1 6 in. Publishing applications such as Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress represent pica measurements with whole-number picas left of a lower-case p , followed by the points number, for example: 5p6 represents 5 picas and 6 points, or ...

  4. Genome size - Wikipedia

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    Genome size ranges (in base pairs) of various life forms. Genome size is the total amount of DNA contained within one copy of a single complete genome.It is typically measured in terms of mass in picograms (trillionths or 10 −12 of a gram, abbreviated pg) or less frequently in daltons, or as the total number of nucleotide base pairs, usually in megabases (millions of base pairs, abbreviated ...

  5. Orders of magnitude (data) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    LUN—Logical Unit Number; ... PCMCIA—Personal Computer Memory Card International Association; PCM—Pulse-Code Modulation; PCRE—Perl Compatible Regular Expressions;

  7. Picometre - Wikipedia

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    The picometre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: pm) or picometer (American spelling) is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 × 10 −12 m, or one trillionth (⁠ 1 / 1 000 000 000 000 ⁠) of a metre, which is the SI base unit of length.

  8. Units of information - Wikipedia

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    Historically, a byte was the number of bits used to encode a character of text in the computer, which depended on computer hardware architecture, but today it almost always means eight bits – that is, an octet. An 8-bit byte can represent 256 (2 8) distinct values, such as non-negative integers from 0 to 255, or signed integers from −128 to ...

  9. Category:Units of information - Wikipedia

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    This category identifies units of information or computer storage. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. B.