Big Binary Numbers



We attach the Greek prefixes kilo, mega, giga, tera, and peta to indicate large numbers when talking about binary storage:

kilo = thousand
mega = million
giga = billion
tera = trillion
peta = quadrillion





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A kilobyte (abbreviated KB) would be (about) how many bytes?

a megabyte (abbreviated MB) would be...

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