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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... mega giga tera peta exa zetta yotta ronna quetta; Prefix symbol da h k M G T P E ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
Mega-2 1 10 9: Billion Thousand million Milliard G Giga-3 2 10 12: Trillion Billion Billion T Tera-4 2 10 15: Quadrillion Thousand billion Billiard P Peta-5 3 10 18: Quintillion Trillion Trillion E Exa-6 3 10 21: Sextillion Thousand trillion Trilliard Z Zetta-7 4 10 24: Septillion Quadrillion Quadrillion Y Yotta-8 4 10 27: Octillion Thousand ...
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)