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HOME >> Measurements (Updated: July 10th, 2009)
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8 Kbits = 1 KByte
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8Kb = 1KB (Note the use of upper and lower case characters)
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| Name: |
Abbr. |
Decimal Power: |
Factor: |
Common Usage: |
| tera |
T |
10^12 |
1,000,000,000,000 |
mass storage hard drives (TB) |
| giga |
G |
10^9 |
1,000,000,000 |
large hard drives, DVDs, RAM (GB), CPU speeds (GHz) |
| mega |
M |
10^6 |
1,000,000 |
Zip disks, CDs, RAM (MB), old CPU speeds (MHz) |
| kilo |
K |
10^3 |
1,000 |
communication speeds (KB/sec) |
| milli |
m |
10^-3 |
0.001 |
drive access speeds (ms) |
| micro |
µ |
10^-6 |
0.000001 |
various circuit speeds (us) |
| nano |
n |
10^-9 |
0.000000001 |
memory speed (ns), CPU cycle length (ns), capacitors (nF) |
| pico |
p |
10^-12 |
0.000000000001 |
capacitors (pF) |
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