Sunday, 27 November 2011

DID YOU KNOW???
10 bytes-one word
2 kilobytes-one page of type written text
10 kilobytes-one page of a reference book
1 megabyte-a short novel
5megabytes-the complete works of Shakespeare(that's a lot!)
100 megabytes-one metre of books on a shelf
250 megabytes-the total output of data per year for every person on earth
500 megabytes-a CD-ROM
20 gigabytes-the complete works of Beethoven on CD
10 terabytes-all the printed works in the world's largest library,the USA  library of congress
200 petabytes-everything ever printed
5 exabytes-every word ever spoken!

2 comments:

  1. 1 Bit = Binary Digit
    8 Bits = 1 Byte
    1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
    1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
    1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
    1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
    1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
    1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
    1024 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
    1024 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte
    1024 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte
    1024 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte

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