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That’s a LOOOTTTT of bytes!
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on 11 - February 2006 at 07:25 PM
(18 years ago). 304 views.
My brother James and I were having an interesting conversation about AI and the C programming language.
In the course of our discussion, we began to discuss larger and larger units of measuring storage and space. Fortunately, Answer.com came to the rescue.
Turns out a Yottabyte is a rather large amount of potential storage. A yottabyte is:
1) 1024 bytes.
Of course, to be more accurate (we are in base 8 here, right?)
2) 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes
In plain old english, a yottabyte is about 1 septilliion bytes.