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12 bits – wordlength of the PDP-8 of Digital Equipment Corporation (built from 1965 to 1990) 2 4: 16 bits – the Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode, containing character codings for almost all modern languages, and a large number of symbols – the basic unit in UTF-16; the full Universal Character Set (Unicode) can be encoded in one or two ...
Except for the early prefixes of kilo-, hecto-, and deca-, the symbols for the prefixes for multiples are uppercase letters, and those for the prefixes for submultiples are lowercase letters. [8] All of the metric prefix symbols are made from upper- and lower-case Latin letters except for the symbol for micro, which is uniquely a Greek letter ...
The kilogram is the only standard unit to include an SI prefix (kilo-) as part of its name. The gram (10 −3 kg) is an SI derived unit of mass. 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 prefixes of the metric system, such as kilo and milli, represent multiplication by positive or negative powers of ten. In information technology it is common to use binary prefixes, which are based on powers of two. Historically, many prefixes have been used or proposed by various sources, but only a narrow set has been recognised by ...
A unit for a large amount of data can be formed using either a metric or binary prefix with a base unit. For storage, the base unit is typically byte. For communication throughput, a base unit of bit is common. For example, using the metric kilo prefix, a kilobyte is 1000 bytes and a kilobit is 1000 bits.
The crash sent the taxi careening onto the sidewalk, where the vehicle hit the 51-year-old woman and two men, 44 and 49. The woman was “pinned” against a fence by the vehicle, a police source said
An SI derived unit is a named combination of base units such as hertz (cycles per second), newton (kg⋅m/s 2), and tesla (1 kg⋅s −2 ⋅A −1) and in the case of Celsius a shifted scale from Kelvin. Certain units have been officially accepted for use with the SI.
LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -European shares ticked up on Thursday after falling the previous day, while Asian stocks slipped, as trading volumes thinned ahead of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.