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Petabyte

One petabyte is 10^(15) bytes. Unfortunately, the term is sometimes also used to mean 2^(50)=1024^5 bytes. However, the latter usage is deprecated, and the term pebibyte is preferred for 1024^5 bytes.

See also

Byte, Gigabyte, Kilobyte, Mebibyte, Million, Pebibyte, Terabyte

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References

National Institute of Standards. "Prefixes for Binary Multiples." http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html.

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Petabyte

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Petabyte." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Petabyte.html

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