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google does something interesting when you use google.com to convert that number to say gigabytes by doing a search such as: 10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes to gi
by taf2 14y ago
google does something interesting when you use google.com to convert that number to say gigabytes by doing a search such as: 10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes to gigabytes
the result is 9.31323e6
Notice the e... because it's in the same font your eye might miss it like mine and then you'd say to yourself... 10 gigabytes is so small who cares... but if you do the same search again but this time to petabytes you'll realize it was an 'e' in the gigabyte number...
So google says 8.88178 petabytes that's a lot
- rm999 14y agoIt's exactly 10 petabytes. Giga/peta are SI prefixes and hence are in base 10. BTW, take google's conversions with a grain of salt. As I understand it, google's conversion was just a minor project and not something that is maintained at high quality. For these things Wolfam Alpha is almost always better because it's the kind of thing Alpha was designed to do.
- cynwoody 14y agoGoogle Calc is a bit behind the curve. The proper prefixes for 2^30 and 2^50 are gibi and pebi, not, as you point out, giga and peta. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_binary_prefixes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_binary_prefixes
- devcpp 14y agoExactly what he was pointing out.
- HyprMusic 14y agoThe 'e' represents times 10 to the power of the following number. It's a variant of standard form, here's what Wikipedia says about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation#E_notation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation#E_notation
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoOne I hate, too, so easy to miss. *10^ or x10^ is better.
- ville 14y agoLooks like Google mixes petabytes with pebibytes.