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It'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'
by rm999 14y ago
It'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.